Domestos

English

Noun

Domestos (uncountable)

1. A (brand of) household cleaner which contains bleach.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Roy Chubby Brown, George Proudman, Roy "Chubby" Brown - The Antiques Jokeshow - Jokes from the Attic - EBook, The Celebrity Gift Company Ltd:

     He's been drinking Domestos, no wonder he's clean round the bend.
     He's so small he hires himself out to stand on top of wedding cakes. […]

   • 2010, Zygmunt Miloszewski, Entanglement, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 312:

     He was expecting it to taste like Domestos, but in fact it was quite bearable. A bit like Russian sparkling wine without the bubbles. And sweeter. But he didn't fancy the idea of getting drunk on it. “That is, I thought I saw Sosnowski […]

   • 2010 February 23, Jack Sheffield, Village Teacher, Random House, →ISBN, page 277:

     Meanwhile, in the vicarage kitchen Joseph was preparing a new and subtle variation to his home-made greengage wine, happily oblivious to the fact it tasted like Domestos, while Maurice Tupham was walking across the High Street to […]

   • 2016, Trisha Broomfield, The Equator and other Disappointments, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 19:

     Bryan continued to smoke
     And fix us with fidgety eyes until one day
     He drank Domestos
     And his secret smile died.

   • 2019 March 7, Robert Elms, London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City, Canongate Books, →ISBN:

     […] the southern end of Camden, so Mornington Crescent and Fitzrovia were awash with Domestica, which tasted like Domestos, and littered with the shards of intentionally cracked crockery. There was the famous late night carouser's kebab […]

   • 2021 January 5, Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder, Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

     (He's probably shining a torch through his veins and drinking Domestos. Bon appétit, Donald.)