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plughole

(plʌghoʊl)
Word forms: plural plugholes
1. countable noun
A plughole is a small hole in a bath or sink which allows the water to flow away and into which you can put a plug.
[British]regional note: in AM, use drain
2. 
See down the plughole

plughole in British English

(ˈplʌɡˌhəʊl)
noun
a hole, esp in a bath, basin, or sink, through which waste water drains and which can be closed with a plug

Examples of 'plughole' in a sentence
plughole

In the cramped bathroom, there's a deep free-standing bath with green stains around the plughole.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
Of renewed failure, of seeing a second chance whirl down the plughole.
Trenhalle, John A MEANS TO EVIL (2002)
Anything like love had run clear away, like water down a plughole, she felt nothing at all.
Harvey, John THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE (2002)

In other languages
plughole

British English: plughole /ˈplʌɡˌhəʊl/ NOUN
A plughole is a small hole in a bath or sink which allows the water to flow away and into which you can put a plug.
  • American English: drain
  • Arabic: سيفون
  • Brazilian Portuguese: escoadouro
  • Chinese: 插孔
  • Croatian: utičnica
  • Czech: odtok vany
  • Danish: afløb
  • Dutch: afvoer
  • European Spanish: desagüe
  • Finnish: viemäriaukko
  • French: bonde
  • German: Abflussloch
  • Greek: αεραγωγός
  • Italian: scarico
  • Japanese: 排水口
  • Korean: 마개 구멍
  • Norwegian: avløp
  • Polish: otwór odpływowy
  • European Portuguese: ralo
  • Romanian: gaură de evacuare
  • Russian: штепсельное гнездо
  • Latin American Spanish: desagüe
  • Swedish: avloppshål
  • Thai: รูที่ให้น้ำไหลออก
  • Turkish: musluk deliği
  • Ukrainian: зливний отвір
  • Vietnamese: lỗ thoát nước

Chinese translation of 'plughole'

plughole

(ˈplʌɡhəul) (Brit)

n (c)

  1. 排水孔 (páishuǐ kǒng) (个(個), gè)
    to go down the plughole (inf) 付诸(諸)东(東)流 (fù zhū dōng liú)
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