blackwash
(noun) a wash that colors a surface black
blackwash, black lotion
(noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
blackwash
(verb) color with blackwash
blackwash
(verb) bring (information) out of concealment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, mining) public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
(chiefly, politics) A villainization campaign
• (New Zealand victory): blackout
• (villainization): whitewash
blackwash (third-person singular simple present blackwashes, present participle blackwashing, simple past and past participle blackwashed)
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
• (villainize): whitewash
• black haws
Source: Wiktionary
Black" wash` or Black"wash, n.
1. (Med.)
Definition: A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
