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unˈwashed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 8 c.]
1. Not washed; not cleaned by washing.
a1390Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. (1791) 21 Take Hares,..and seeþ hem with þe blode unwaisshed in broth. a1400Northern Passion 346 Wasche fote and hand we pray þe, þat nokyn thyng vn wessched be. c1440Promp. Parv. 368/1 On-waschyd, illotus. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. iv. ii. 66 It is good to laye vppon the place vnwashed woulle. 1605R. F. Dedekind's Sch. Slovenrie (1904) 30 Then with your unwasht knife to cut your meate can breede no hurt. 1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 179 Take Mallows and Mercury unwasht. 1751Akenside Ode to T. Edwards vi, The sophist..With unwashed hands and lips profane. 1815Scott Guy M. xliv, She proceeded with unwashed hands to arrange the stipulated bed-linen. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 232 The emulsion is an unwashed one.
fig.1607B. Jonson Volpone Ep. ¶ 2, I..haue loathed the vse of such foule, and vn-wash'd Baudr'y. 1611― Catiline ii. i, A slanderous, beastly, vnwash'd tongue. 1849Lever Con Cregan xv, Wickedness in its most unwashed state.
2. a. spec. Of persons: Not having washed; not usually washed or in a clean state.
1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 201 Another leane, vnwash'd Artificer, Cuts off his tale, and talkes of Arthurs death. a1727Ballad on Quadrille viii, The King of late..made, of many a Squire and Lord, An unwash'd Knight of Bath. 1781Cowper Table-t. 152 Clubs..To which th' unwash'd artificer repairs. 1822Scott Nigel Introd. Ep., All the unwashed artificers connected with literature. 1865Kingsley Herew. xviii, Why should not beggars go unwashed? 1868[T. Wright] Great Unwashed Pref., Others who..are by the unwashed workers looked upon as swells.
b. absol. Those who are not usually in a clean state; the ‘lower orders’. Freq. with great.
(a)1830Lytton Paul Clifford I. p. xix, He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘lives cleanly’, (two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed). 1833Hook Parson's Dau. II. 119 The ‘fat and greasy’, and the ‘great unwashed,’ bowed and smiled their best. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xxx, Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed. 1868[T. Wright] The Great Unwashed Pref., Whenever..I speak of working men, or the working classes, it is in the ‘great-unwashed’ sense.
(b)1840Tipperary Constitution 21 Aug. 2/3 The learned gentleman then briefly addressed the few unwashed, who were attracted to the scene. 1853in Thornton Amer. Gloss. 920 A great portion of the unwashed, as well as the ‘unterrified’ left the hall. 1859F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 417 The ‘waters of instruction’ are to be plentifully supplied to the unwashed.
3. Not washed off or out.
1628May Virg. Georg. iii. 94 Sweat unwash'd off [will] stick Vpon their new-shorne skins. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets ii. ⁋ 6 His happy Athenian associations gave a colour, unwashed out by tears, to his mind and works.
Hence unˈwashedness.
1890W. Booth In Darkest England ii. ii. 106 You can have a thorough wash-up at last, after all these days of unwashedness. 1893Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/2 Various perfumes of un⁓washedness and misery. |