eyewash
/ˈʌɪwɒʃ/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʌɪwɒʃ/
eyewash
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
eye - wash -> eyewash
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
eyewash /'aÇwɒʃ;US -wↄ:ʃ/ n [U] (infml )
ပေါက်တတ်ကရ စကား။ အဓိပ္ပာယ်မရှိသော စကား။ မဟုတ်ကဟုတ်က။
His story may sound convincing enough but it's all complete eyewash.
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a line, adulation, applause, applesauce, approbation, balderdash, baloney, bilge, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, cajolery, claptrap, coaxing, commendation, compliments, encomium, eulogy, exaggeration, false praise, fawning, flattering, flattery, flimflam, flummery, fulsomeness, gallantry, garbage, gratification, hogwash, hokum, honey, honeyed words, hooey, horsefeathers, incense, ingratiation, inveiglement, jazz, jive, laud, mush, nonsense, obsequiousness, oil, overpraise, palaver, piffle, plaudits, poppycock, pretty speech, puffery, rot, rubbish, servility, smoke, snow, snow job, soft soap, soft words, soft-soap, stroke, sweet talk, sycophancy, toadyism, tomfoolery, tommyrot, trash, tribute, truckling, twaddle, unctuousness, wheedling
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