Wash.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-wash

1. To coat with, or a coating of, paint of the colour specified.
   • 1848, Joshua Fawcett, Church rides in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, Yorkshire, page 22:

     At present, successive coats of yellowwash fill up the rich decoration of this doorway, so that its beauty is not brought out to the eye of the unpractised visitor.

   • 1930, Francis Hamilton, Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept During the Survey of the District of Bhagalpur in 1810-1811

     The natives dig clay from both places, in order to paint or rather redwash the walls of their huts.

   • 2021, Roger H. Guichard, Middle East Tapestry, Wipf and Stock Publishers (→ISBN), page 266:

     The only touch of color was provided by a small copy Leonardo's Last Supper and three crudely painted windows, executed in a kind of bluewash and orangewash, over the altar.

2. To focus on, or an act of focussing on, a supposedly positive aspect of an organisation in order to distract from or downplay negative perceptions.
   • 2004, John M. Talbot, Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (→ISBN), page 210:

     They are likely to remain small and relatively marginalized niche markets, even as some of their rhetoric is appropriated by the TNCs for use as marketing gimmicks and bluewash.

   • 2012, Guy Pearse, Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams, Black Inc. (→ISBN)

     In embracing and promoting their collaborations with WWF, these companies are being encouraged to greenwash their brands with the WWF logo.

   • 2014, Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler, Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, NYU Press (→ISBN)

     One might argue that more is at stake than hiring multiracial, female, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) employees to rainbowwash corporate agendas.

   • 2018, Cyril Ghosh, De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US, Springer (→ISBN), page 20:

     Spade suggests here, in the same breath, both that the Obama administration uses its "declarations of gay rights" to pinkwash and that its support for gay rights is "used as a rationale for domestic and international regimes of racialized violence and warfare."

3. (informal) An overwhelming victory by a team or entity of the colour specified; often a clean sweep.
   • 2016 June 21, Webster, Andrew; Masters, Roy; Mascord, Steve; Lutton, Phil; Walter, Brad; Barrett, Chris; Pengilly, Adam; Proszenko, Adrian; Chammas, Michael, “State of Origin 2016: Who the experts are tipping in game two”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1]:

     A Maroonwash will be two-thirds complete on a fast track at Suncorp.

   • 2017 December 28, “Myanmar's newsmakers of 2017”, in Frontier Myanmar‎^[2]:

     So many were delighted when he was unceremoniously turfed from office in the 2015 redwash, with his USDP losing every single seat in the region.

   • 2018 July 11, Liebke, Dan, “The Liebke Ratings: State of Origin 3”, in The Roar‎^[3]:

     To achieve a bluewash for the first time in a thousand years? Quite the incentive for Brad Fittler’s Baby Blues.

派生語

参照

• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) - UNHCR
• Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Home - Healthy Water - CDC (Centers for Disease Control かつ Prevention)

アナグラム

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