Reverse Dictionary: LAUNDRY

ADJECTIVES
1911 — BLACKLIE ill-coloured; dirty; badly washed → Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1375 — NETTING stale urine, esp. as used for washing with → Eng. dial.
1393 — LAVENDRY an establishment where linen, etc. is washed and ‘got up’ → obs.
1560 — LAG — LAGE a wash of clothes → cant
1560 — LAG-A-DUDS a wash of clothes → cant obs.
1622 — LAG OF DUDS a ‘buck’ or ‘wash’ of clothes → cant obs.
1661 — LAVATORY a laundry
..E19 — SNOW underwear; linen hanging on washlines drying → tramps’ sl.
1820 — SAPPLES soap-suds, lather for washing → Sc.
1845 — BATTLING BLOCK a bench-like wooden stand with a flat surface on which clothes are beaten in washing → Amer. dial.
1851 — BATTLING STICK a paddle-shaped piece of wood used to beat dirt out of soiled clothes after removing them from boiling water → Amer. dial.
1851 — TROUBLING STICK a paddle-shaped piece of wood used to beat dirt out of soiled clothes after removing them from boiling water → Amer. dial.
1892 — POTING-STICK a stick for stirring clothes while washing at high temperatures → Eng. dial.
1902 — LABBERMENT a splashing; a washing of linen on a small scale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — NETTING soap and water mixed and then made into a lather, used for washing clothes → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BLOTS water for washing clothes; soapsuds, dirty water → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BLOUT foul water thrown from washing-tubs → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BOYEN a washing-tub → Sc. (Bk.)
1912 — GOOSEBERRY a clothesline; laundry hung up to dry → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1915 — BATTLE a ‘beetle’ for battling clothes → Amer. dial.
1929 — DOBEYING washing clothes, doing laundry → naval sl.
1940 — WASHATERIA a self-service laundry → Amer. dial.
1941 — BUTTON-CHOPPER the laundry → US Army sl.
1950 — BACHELOR’S WIFE a metal plunger with a long wooden handle used for washing clothes in a tub → US sl.
1952 — BEATING STICK a stick used to beat clothes while washing them → Amer. dial.
1966 — BEETLING BLOCK — BETELING BLOCK a block of wood on which to beat clothes while washing → Amer. dial.
1982 — WASHATERIA a community building housing laundry and bathing facilities and serving as a source of treated drinking water → Alaska usage
1987 — GRUNGIES dirty laundry → US students’ sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1310 — LAVENDER a washerwoman; a laundress; formerly, also (rarely) a man who washes clothes → obs.
1350 — LAUNDER a person of either sex who washes linen → obs.
1483 — LAVENDRY a laundress → obs.
1892 — DOBIE a washerwoman; a man who performs the functions of a washerwoman → Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
1900 — DABBLE-DACHIE one who splashes a great deal when doing a washing → Sc.
1940 — BUTTON CHOPPER a laundry worker → World War II Amer. sl.

VERBS
1573 — LAY A BUCK to put clothes in soak for washing → obs.
1634 — NET to clean, to wash, to rinse out clothes → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1788 — NAB THE SNOW to steal linen that has been put out to bleach or dry → UK
criminals’ sl.
1836 — SAPPLE to soak, to saturate with water, rain, etc.; to steep clothes in soapy water → Sc.
1860 — DAB OUT to do the laundry; to wash → lower classes’ usage
1876 — HARDEN to dry or air clothes, etc., by holding them to the fire, or by hanging them out in the open air → Eng. dial.
1880 — HAISER — HAIZER of newly-washed clothes, etc.: to dry, esp. partially or on the surface; to air in the open, to bleach → Sc.
1883 — BATTLE to clean soiled clothes by beating them with a paddle (or ‘battle’] after removing them from boiling water → Amer. dial.
1898 — POSS to agitate clothes in soapy water to clean them → Amer. dial.
1905 — HAZERD to dry clothes in the open air → Ireland (Bk.)
1919 — BOIL UP to wash one’s clothes or oneself → Amer. dial.
1968 — BOIL OUT to wash one’s clothes → US logging sl.
1996 — SWADDLE OUT to wash clothes poorly → Amer. dial. (Bk.)