Synd

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. To rinse something out with water, especially to clean or wash it lightly in Scots dialect
2. Washing a vessel or cloth lightly with water so that dirt is carried away, a Scots usage
3. To wash out or rinse a thing with water in the manner of older Scottish speech

Etymology: In Scots, a "synd" is a light rinse: a quick wash of a cup, a dish, or a pail of water, not a thorough scrub. The word is recorded in Scottish dialect use and belongs to the same family of everyday verbs for washing that the Scots language kept long after standard English had moved on. Its exact ancestry is hard to trace in the surviving evidence, so the origin is best described as uncertain. What is clear is that the word names a specific, modest act: a splash of clean water to clear away what the main wash left behind.