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wish-wash

  [wish-wosh, -wawsh]
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–noun
1. a drink that is thin and weak.
2. foolish talk or writing; claptrap.
Origin:
1780–90; extracted from wishy-washy
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wish-wash   (wĭsh'wŏsh', -wôsh')
n.   Informal

  1. Speech or writing deemed banal or foolish.

  2. A thin watery drink.


[Reduplication of wash.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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