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washboardy

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wash⋅board

  [wosh-bawrd, -bohrd, wawsh-]
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–noun
1. a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
2. a baseboard around the walls of a room.
3. Also called splashboard. Nautical.
a. a thin, broad plank fastened to and projecting above the gunwale or side of a boat to keep out the spray and sea.
b. a similar board on the sill of a port.
–adjective
4. resembling a washboard in being rough and bumpy: a washboard roadbed.
Origin:
1735–45; wash + board

Related forms:
washboardy, adjective
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Word Origin & History

washboard 
clothes-cleaning device, 1882, from wash (v.) + board. As a percussion instrument, attested from 1925; in reference to abdominal muscles, recorded from 1950 in boxing jargon.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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