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Hi, Tom
Washing up refers to utensils :D |
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Sep 01, 2006 21:16 pm Wash |
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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.
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Sep 01, 2006 21:24 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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Hi Tom
For clothes, I'd say I did the wash.
For dishes, I'd say I did the dishes.
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Sep 01, 2006 21:35 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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| Yankee wrote: |
For clothes, I'd say I did the wash.
For dishes, I'd say I did the dishes.
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Amy, and the verb for washing hair? To shampoo? To hairwash :)
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Sep 01, 2006 22:29 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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| And what about the brainwashing, Tamara? :lol: :lol: |
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Sep 01, 2006 22:41 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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| Tamara wrote: |
| Amy, and the verb for washing hair? To shampoo? To hairwash :) |
No, Pamela,
I did my hair! :lol:
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Sep 01, 2006 23:07 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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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
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| #9 (permalink) Sat Sep 02, 2006 23:44 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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| Yankee wrote: |
| Tamara wrote: |
| Amy, and the verb for washing hair? To shampoo? To hairwash :) |
No, Pamela,
I did my hair! :lol: |
To do your hair doesn't mean to wash your hair. It means to give yourself a hairdo. |
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| #10 (permalink) Sat Sep 02, 2006 23:47 pm Washing versus Washing up |
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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. |
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| #11 (permalink) Sun Sep 03, 2006 0:48 am Washing versus Washing up |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Yankee wrote: |
| Tamara wrote: |
| Amy, and the verb for washing hair? To shampoo? To hairwash :) |
No, Pamela,
I did my hair! :lol: |
To do your hair doesn't mean to wash your hair. It means to give yourself a hairdo. |
Jamie, could you give us a slightly more detailed description (from a man's point of view) of what is entailed in "giving yourself a hairdo"? ;)
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| #12 (permalink) Sun Sep 03, 2006 0:58 am Washing versus Washing up |
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| Jamie, could you give us a slightly more detailed description (from a man's point of view) of what is entailed in "giving yourself a hairdo"? ;) |
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| Jamie, could you give us a slightly more detailed description (from a man's point of view) of what is entailed in "giving yourself a hairdo"? ;) |
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| Jamie, could you give us a slightly more detailed description (from a man's point of view) of what is entailed in "giving yourself a hairdo"? ;) |
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