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whitewash
English
Etymology
white +? wash
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?tw??/
- Rhymes: -a?tw??
Noun
whitewash (countable and uncountable, plural whitewashes)
- A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
- (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
- (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- (politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements.
- Antonym: blackwash
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.
- 1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery (page lxxxiii)
- The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; and we can only say with regard to the 15s. sherry, that it would have made an admirable "whitewash," as Sheridan's glass is still sometimes called, […]
- 1950, Wine & the Wine Trade (page 28)
- Sercial was also used as a sort of white-wash after the Port at dinner, those were the days when people had time to drink both Port and a White wash.
- 1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery (page lxxxiii)
Derived terms
- whitewashing
- whitewashed
Translations
References
- (glass of sherry): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Verb
whitewash (third-person singular simple present whitewashes, present participle whitewashing, simple past and past participle whitewashed)
- To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
- (figuratively) To cover over errors or bad actions.
- Antonym: blackwash
- (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
- (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
- (US, Britain, slang) In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk.
- (derogatory) To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation.
Derived terms
- bluewash
- brownwash
- cloudwash
- greenwash
- pinkwash
Translations
Further reading
- whitewash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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whiteout
English
Alternative forms
- white-out
Etymology
white +? out
Pronunciation
Noun
whiteout (countable and uncountable, plural whiteouts)
- A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
- (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
- (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.
Translations
See also
- blackout
- brownout
Further reading
- whiteout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- withoute
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