windexEtymologyFrom a trade name, derived from window.windex means A window cleaner containing detergent and ammonia. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA window cleaner containing detergent and ammonia.An arrow-shaped indicator of wind direction installed in mast-top.verbTo 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 admiring stare when she Windexes toothpaste flecks off the bathroom mirror.”