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Dishwashers

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Envious Mon 13-Apr-15 22:38:44

Sorta late in then day to start a discussion but I was recently house hunting and the first thing that's important to me is a dishwasher. As a young mother i had to do without for the first year of my sons life and the two years before he was born.I can't imagine having to do without.Im always using too many dishes and cutlery. Im very careful and always grab a clean object. Do several of you manage without? I once asked ole Pete if his family had a dishwasher and he said yes..his wife! grin

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annsixty Tue 14-Apr-15 23:55:02

I thought it was a horrid word with connotations of pig swill!! I never used it myself. Like you I thought it sounded dirty.

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POGS Wed 15-Apr-15 09:15:15

Nellie

I now live in Leics .

Swill is a common word I would have thought and it means to cleanse, wash or rinse using liquid.

Pig swill is also correct.

And of course to swill down a drink, gulp etc.

So I don't see it as a mucky or dirty word butbut then again I'm not very posh, wink

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annsixty Wed 15-Apr-15 09:42:42

I am far from posh POGS just didn't like the thought of pig swill and it came to mind every time.grin

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kittylester Wed 15-Apr-15 10:21:10

I live in Leics and have heard swill used lots but, before that, I heard it used by my Lancashire Nan, in Derbyshire!

I think mine is a Mrs Bucket aversion to the word as we lived opposite a small holding when I was young and I was always being sent over with revolting, smelly stuff to put in their 'swill' for the pigs!

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Tegan Wed 15-Apr-15 10:31:45

Gosh; I'd forgotten the word as well. My mum used it a lot for washing things. Tend to think of it [from memory] as not a thorough clean but more of a quick rinse, so maybe it originated from an implication that something hadn't been washed thoroughly, therefore not quite clean [just a theory].

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Coolgran65 Wed 15-Apr-15 13:38:07

Here in N. Ireland I'm familiar with the term swill, to rinse or to take a drink. Occasionally now but more in my childhood.

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