ditchwater

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   stagnant, usually dirty water collected in a roadside or field ditch

   A film of oil floated on the ditchwater.

A transparent compound of ditch and water, recorded in English for water lying in a drainage ditch. Its association with stagnant, unappealing liquid also produced the comparison 'dull as ditchwater.'

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