- Gloss
- "Laundry / Rumor"
- Definition
- Doing laundry, or sometimes referring to a rumor washing around.
- Example
- "Time fi do di wash-wash."
- Origin
- Reduplication.
As an everyday term, Wash-wash is one you'll likely come across in real Jamaican speech. Try the Jamaican Patois translator to see it in a sentence, or head back to the lexicon index for more words like it.