See wash-over on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "wash-overs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wash-over (plural wash-overs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6:", "text": "\"It's bloody, having a wash-over at a basin, and half the time that's choked up and has to be poked out with a bit of wire. And look at the towels that old bitch hands us out - worn to threads. I'd like to soak for an hour in bath-salts to get the sweat and greasepaint off me.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An act of washing which encompasses the entire surface." ], "id": "en-wash-over-en-noun-37hjFxPw" } ], "word": "wash-over" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "wash-overs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "wash-over (plural wash-overs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6:", "text": "\"It's bloody, having a wash-over at a basin, and half the time that's choked up and has to be poked out with a bit of wire. And look at the towels that old bitch hands us out - worn to threads. I'd like to soak for an hour in bath-salts to get the sweat and greasepaint off me.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An act of washing which encompasses the entire surface." ] } ], "word": "wash-over" }
Download raw JSONL data for wash-over meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.