Synonyms for wringer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ring-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɪŋ ər |
Top 10 synonyms for wringer
Définition of wringer
Origin :- "device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring. Figurative phrase to put (something) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.
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- Also, your garments are as wrinkled as though you'd been put through a wringer.
- Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman
- Get a strong barrel and a pounder—such as used by washerwomen; also a wringer.
- Extract from : « Hints on Dairying » by T. D. Curtis
- Never leave a wringer with the pressure on the rollers when not in use.
- Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen
- Thus, the clothes are wrung as dry as in a wringer of the roller type.
- Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen
- But close—say, that man's so close he puts every copper through the wringer.
- Extract from : « Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm » by Alice B. Emerson
- Judging from his looks, he might have been run through a wringer.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts of Lakeville High » by Leslie W. Quirk
- Have a cup of coffee; you sure look as though you've been through a wringer.
- Extract from : « The Brain » by Alexander Blade
- Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank.
- Extract from : « Raggedy Ann Stories » by Johnny Gruelle
- A smart man is this Sagasta, an' wan that can put a crimp in th' ca-ards that ye cudden't take out with a washerwoman's wringer.
- Extract from : « Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War » by Finley Peter Dunne
- Here stood a washing machine run by electric motor and a wringer run by the same motor (Fig. 143).
- Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Electricity and Its Everyday Uses » by John F. Woodhull
Antonyms for wringer
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