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ditchwater
[ dich-waw-ter, -wot-er ]
noun
- water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
ditchwater
/ ˈdɪtʃˌwɔːtə /
noun
- stagnant water
- as dull as ditchwater or ditchwaterextremely uninspiring
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ditchwater1
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Idioms and Phrases
- dull as ditchwater. dishwater ( def 2 ).
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Example Sentences
Mrs. Bodfish and Mrs. Ditchwater are talking in confidential undertones on a settee.
We have been walking for ten days now without an adventure—except Barnes's discovery that ditchwater smells longest.
Life would be as ditchwater were it not stirred to its depths by K.'s secret cable.
He looks as though hes so nice hell be as dull as ditchwater.
Ugh—what the devil would you do in those damnable sickly gutters—floundering about in the brackish ditchwater?
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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