Eyewash

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eyewash \Eye"wash\, n.
     See {Eyewater}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  eyewash
       n : lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the
           eyes [syn: {eye-lotion}, {collyrium}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "eyewash":
     adulation, balls, balm, baloney, balsam, bilge, blague,
     blandishment, blarney, bosh, brilliantine, bull, bullshit, bunk,
     bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, cerate, chrism, claptrap, cold cream,
     collyrium, compliment, crap, cream, demulcent, embrocation,
     emollient, eye-lotion, eyewater, face cream, fair words, fawning,
     flam, flattery, flimflam, gammon, grease, hand lotion, hogwash,
     hoke, hokum, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hooey, horsefeathers,
     humbug, humbuggery, incense, inunction, inunctum, jiggery-pokery,
     lanolin, lenitive, liniment, lotion, malarkey, moonshine, nard,
     oil, ointment, palaver, pomade, pomatum, praise, pretty lies, rot,
     salve, soap, soft soap, soothing syrup, spikenard, sweet nothings,
     sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, twaddle, unction, unguent,
     unguentum, vulnerary, wheedling