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English
Etymology
From dish + rag.
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Noun
dishrag (plural dishrags)
- Synonym of dishcloth (but now widely held to connote a threadbare and unclean nature versus that synonym).
- (slang) An unclean person; used in similes.
You're not going out like that! You look like a dishrag!
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