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unwashed

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un⋅washed

  [uhn-wosht, -wawsht]
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–adjective
1. not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of the common people; untutored, unsophisticated, or ignorant; plebeian: the power of the unwashed electorate.
–noun
3. (used with a plural verb) an ignorant or lower-class group; rabble (usually prec. by the): The author claimed that the unwashed would not understand his books.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see un- 1 , washed
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un·washed   (ŭn-wŏsht', -wôsht')   
adj.  

  1. Not washed; unclean.

  2. Plebeian: the unwashed masses.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

unwashed 
c.1390, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of wash (v.). Noun sense of "the lower class" is attested from 1830.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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