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washup

2.6

Washing the dishes and pans after a meal

noun
/ˈwɑːʃʌp/

: lavado de platos

Examples

Who can you talk to about the pros and cons of the automatic washup feature on your Vandercook press?

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After dinner, I always do the washup to keep the kitchen clean.
She asked her brother to help with the washup so they could finish quickly.
The children were put in charge of the washup after their birthday party.

Synonyms

wash

vswashup

89 1.0

An act of cleaning something with water, often using soap

applies specifically to cleaning dishes after meals

washing

vswashup

46 1.0

The act of cleaning something with water and soap

is restricted to the post meal dish cleaning action

dishwashing

vswashup

9 1.0

Cleaning plates, cups, and pans after a meal

is used mainly for cleaning after a meal rather than any use

washing-up

vswashup

2 1.0

Cleaning dishes and cutlery after a meal

focuses mainly on cleaning dishes rather than all utensils

handwashing

vswashup

1.8

Washing clothes or dishes by hand instead of using a machine

is the same cleaning but not limited to hand method

How Thorough

scrubbing

17 1.0

washup

2.6

rinsing

3 1.0

Surface Forms

washup singular

washups plural

Morphology

washup = wash (semi-transparent) = up + wash

The word is built from the phrasal-verb pattern 'wash up', but the specific dishwashing sense is conventionalized rather than fully predicted by the two parts alone. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Washup comes from the simple words wash and up, where up means 'finished' or 'done', so you picture washing the plates until they are all clean. That's why washup is the name for the act of washing dishes after a meal.