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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNWASH'ED,
UNWASH'EN, a. Not washed; not cleansed by water. Matthew 15.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
2: not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 13th century 1. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water 2. ignorant, plebeian <the unwashed masses> • unwashedness noun II. noun Date: 1830 an ignorant or underprivileged group ; rabble — usually used with great <the great unwashed>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not washed. 2 not usually washed or clean. Phrases and idioms: the great unwashed colloq. the rabble.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unwashed Un*washed", a. Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Unwashed people or objects are dirty and need to be washed. Leftover food and unwashed dishes cover the dirty counters. ADJ 2. The unwashed or the great unwashed is a way of referring to poor or ordinary people. (HUMOROUS) A scowling man briskly led the Queen's husband away from the great unwashed. PHRASE

Moby Thesaurus

base, baseborn, canaille, contaminated, corrupted, dirty, dregs, humble, impure, infected, low, lowborn, lowly, masses, mean, mob, nonkosher, plebeian, polluted, proletariat, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, ritually unclean, scum, the great unwashed, the masses, the mob, the populace, the population, trash, tref, unbathed, unclean, uncleaned, uncleanly, unpure, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unwiped