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douche
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”). Sense 4 from douche bag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du??/
- Rhymes: -u??
Noun
douche (plural douches)
- A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation.
- 1892 Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet, Buxton and its Medicinal Waters, London: John Heywood, [1]
- Massage, or kneading of the whole body, is carried out in this bath after which a steam douche or a warm spray is turned upon the affected parts, according to the nature of the case.
- 1898 Selma Lagerlöf (trans. Pauline Bancroft Flach), The Story of Gösta Berling, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, Part II, Chapter I, p. 249 [2]
- Earth, the great mother, begins to live. Romping like a child she rises from her bath in the spring floods, from her douche in the spring rain.
- 1973 Jaroslav Hašek (trans. Cecil Parrott), The Good Soldier Švejk, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 4, p. 32,
- In the bathroom, they immersed him in a tub of warm water, and then pulled him out and put him under a cold douche.
- 1892 Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet, Buxton and its Medicinal Waters, London: John Heywood, [1]
- Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
- (obsolete) A jet or spray of any liquid.
- (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of douchebag: A contemptible person; a worthless, brainless or disgusting person.
Derived terms
Related terms
- doos
Translations
Verb
douche (third-person singular simple present douches, present participle douching, simple past and past participle douched)
- To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse
- 1926, D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent, New York: Knopf, Chapter II,
- […] a frizzy half-white woman who looked as if she had fallen into a flour-sack, her face was so deep in powder, and her frizzy hair and her brown silk dress so douched with the white dust of it.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 81, [4]
- Mrs. McLash's anger was gone completely, douched not nearly so much by the beer as by this attention to her son.
- 1992, Edna O'Brien, Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter 9, p. 66,
- The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it.
- 2007, Valerie Allen, On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, p. 153,
- Tragedy acts then like a laxative […] or an aperient […] to douche our systems of humors and emotions that unbalance the soul, so that we may return to the virtuous golden mean, to homeostatic equilibrium.
- 1926, D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent, New York: Knopf, Chapter II,
- To use a douche.
Translations
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du?/
- Hyphenation: dou?che
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”). See also does (“shower head”).
Noun
douche m or f (plural douches, diminutive doucheje n)
- shower
- Synonym: stortbad
Derived terms
- douchecabine
- douchegel
- douchegordijn
- douchehok
- douchekop
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: dus (“shower”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
douche
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of douchen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian doccia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du?/
Noun
douche f (plural douches)
- shower
- (juggling) shower
Derived terms
Verb
douche
- first-person singular present indicative of doucher
- third-person singular present indicative of doucher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of doucher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of doucher
- second-person singular imperative of doucher
Related terms
- doucher
- douchette
Descendants
See also
- bain
Derived terms
- douche vaginale
Further reading
- “douche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French douche, from Italian doccia.
Noun
douche f (plural douches)
- (Jersey) shower
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suppository
English
Etymology
From Middle English suppositorie, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin suppositorium, from Late Latin, neuter of suppositorius (“placed beneath”), from Latin supponere (“to put under”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??p?z?t??i/
- (General American) enPR: s?-päz??-tôr'?, IPA(key): /s??p?z??t??i/
Noun
suppository (plural suppositories)
- (medicine) A medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity, especially the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it melts at body temperature.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 372]:
- He's smoother than a suppository, only his suppositories contain dynamite.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 372]:
Translations
See also
- clyster
- enema
- pessary
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