What is the meaning of DULL AS-DISHWATER. Phrases containing DULL AS-DISHWATER
See meanings and uses of DULL AS-DISHWATER!Slangs & AI meanings
Phrs. Very unexciting, exceedingly plain, boring. E.g."I'm not wasting my time watching another hour of this film, it's dull as dishwater." Cf. 'dull as dishwater'.
Doll is slang for a pretty girl or woman of little intelligence: it is sometimes also used as a term of address. Doll is British slang for an amphetamine pill.Doll was old slang for a prostitute.
Full is American and Australian slang for drunk.
Ram−jam full is slang for crammed full.
To use as much power as possible, or go very fast, as in "I gave her full tit and we were still only doing 70!"
AS is slang for methaqualone.
Extremely drunk, beyond legal limits. e.g. "How is George? Not good, he is already full as a boot!" See also Blotto
Zull is Dorset slang for a plough.
Dull and dowdy is London Cockney rhyming slang for cloudy.
Entirely full.
Full As A Boot is Australian slang for drunk.
- You would say something that was no longer sharp was dull. We would say blunt. To us something is dull if it is boring. It can apply to things - like a film could be dull. It also applies to people - I can think of several people who are dull!
Phrs. Very boring, unexciting. Cf. 'dull as dishwater'.
Pull is British slang for to achieve a communing with a desirable person. Pull is British slang for to arrest.Pull is slang for to drink.
Stupid, dull as an ox.
Wull is Dorset slang for will.
John Bull is London Cockney rhyming slang for full. John Bull is Cockney rhyming slang for an arrest (pull). John Bull is Australian slang for drunk.
You would say something that was no longer sharp was dull. We would say blunt. To us something is dull if it is boring. It can apply to things - like a film could be dull. It also applies to people - I can think of several people who are dull!
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superl.
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
v. t.
To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
Compar.
Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
n.
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
v. t.
To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
v. t.
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
Compar.
Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
v. t.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
superl.
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
v. t.
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
a.
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
n.
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
v. i.
To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
n.
A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre.
v. i.
To become dull or stupid.
v. t.
To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
v. t.
To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.
v. t.
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
adv. & conj.
As if; as though.
n.
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
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