great unhosed

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English

Etymology

Coined by Chris Morris in the 1997 Brass Eye episode "Crime" in a satirical parody of crime reporting, with the apparent implication that the people referred to should be cleaned with a hose like farm animals.

Noun

great unhosed pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative form of great unwashed
    • 1997 February 26, Chris Morris, “Crime”, in Brass Eye:
      And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks.
    • 2011, Carlos Alba, Kane's Ladder, Birlinn, →ISBN:
      Really, I can't understand why anyone would want to work in a restaurant, pandering to the random whims of the great unhosed.
    • 2014, Allan Brown, 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      He fills the trough at which the great unhosed tuck in and pig out