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Potwash - someone/something that is useless, pointless. Derived from the job 'potwash' in which someone who works in a pub/restaurant and only 'washes the pots'.

Calling someone or something a potwash could mean they are stupid, useless, meaningless, pointless, dumb, worthless etc.

The word originated at Chichester University, West Sussex, United Kingdom, December 2012
1. *someone breaks something
'Oh my you are such a potwash Soph!'

2. *someone does a job/task wrong
'Chris you're nothing but a potwash!'

3. 'That lesson was so pointless'

'Yeah, it was absolute potwash!'

4. 'You're an idiot!'

'Dumbass!'

'Potwash!'
Potwash by SwitIsTheWord December 25, 2012
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To live or lodge in a temporary residence, especially with a live-in landlord away from home for purpose of quick work commuting.

Word origin: A landlord offered to wash the used pots or containers of rice for the worker lodging with her. She said she will wash his pots. Ergo "potwash".
Example 1: Are you staying in potwash tonight or going back to Nottingham?

Example 2: You at potwash tonight or you going home?
Potwash by Circleline September 23, 2024
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Antonym of whitewash. A portmanteau of the term POC or Persons of Color and whitewashing that serves as the opposite meaning of whitewashing.

POCwash is the process of taking establish content and characters and supplanting them with Persons Of Color, when the original source material or historical event involved white people.
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impure potassium, traditionaly used in making soap
potash by Melly September 15, 2003
used as a statement or exclamation meaning awesome or cool. also an adjective meaning awesome or cool
POTASH!
or
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used to describe a good characteristic of something, especially in the case of weed.
dude, this weed is like sooooooooooo potash.
potash by A Thousand June 21, 2003
Another term for a womans vaginal hair, especially if trimmed neatly. Also see Pohawk.

Alternative meaning: An asshole at Eden.
Dude, that chick had a sweet potash, it smelled like peaches and looked the the infield at yankee staduim.
Potash by Dee-N-Dee May 14, 2003
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