Washing versus Washing up

[Tom]

Hi

Last night I did washing and washing up!

Could you please shed some light on the sentence?

Which one is clothes and which one is utensils?

Tom

[Pamela]

Hi, Tom
Washing up refers to utensils

[Alan]

Hi Tom,

You'll have to ask Amy what she means by wash up. Here this side of the Atlantic it means wash the dishes.

Alan
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[Yankee]

Hi Tom

For clothes, I'd say I did the wash.

For dishes, I'd say I did the dishes.

[Tamara]

[Pamela]

And what about the brainwashing, Tamara?

[Yankee]

[Bara]

Hi

Wash up could also be for hands as in:
Go and wash up - your dinner's ready.

Shampoo in brief is a soap used for washing hair.

Brainwash (V): to make someone believe something by continually telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them.
Example:
The government is trying to brainwash them into thinking that war is necessary.

Brainwashing (n):
Example:
Many people thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing

regads
Baraa

[Jamie (K)]

[Jamie (K)]

Washing up without a direct object is not understood to mean washing dishes in my part of the English-speaking world. It usually means to wash oneself (short of taking a bath or shower), maybe just one's hands and face.

Note that we also don't say have a wash here, and some people would have trouble understanding it.

[Yankee]

[Jamie (K)]

[Jamie (K)]

[Jamie (K)]

[Yankee]