pyykki — meaning in English

English meaning

• laundry noun Clothes and linens that need washing, are being washed, or have just been washed.
• wash verb To clean something using water, usually with soap.
• washing noun The act of cleaning something with water.

Senses

pyykki is used for these senses in English:

• laundry That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered. [from c. 1930]
• wash A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
• washing (uncountable, chiefly, British, NZ, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.

laundry — full definition

1. noun Clothes and linens that need washing, are being washed, or have just been washed.
2. noun A place or business where clothes are washed.

wash — full definition

1. verb To clean something using water, usually with soap.
2. verb To wear away or carry something off through the force of moving water.
3. noun The act of washing, or a batch of laundry that has been washed together.
4. noun A result in which gains and losses cancel each other out, leaving no real net change.

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