Windex
A window cleaner containing detergent and ammonia.
Noun
- A window cleaner containing detergent and ammonia.
Origin
From a trade name, derived from window.
Synonyms
Noun nautical, sailing
- An arrow-shaped indicator of wind direction installed in mast-top.
Origin
From a brand of mast-top wind indicator for sailing boats, derived from wind.
Forms
Verb
- To clean (a glass surface) using a cleaning product of this kind.
- 1985, Bharati Mukherjee, “Visitors” in Darkness, Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, p. 164, But if change has come into her life as Mrs Sailen Kumar, it has seeped in so gradually that she can’t fix it with one...
- Back on the twenty-third floor, he found Nguyet Windexing the kitchen window with what appeared to be the last of the paper towels. - 1987, Armistead Maupin, “Descent into Heaven”, in Significant Others, New York:...
- Often the ground glared back as would a freshly Windexed mirror, so that when he fell, breaking what the doctor termed a “coccyx,” seven years of bad luck became part of the bargain. - 1995, John Keene, “Theses,...