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Irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents
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douche
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas [syn: douche bag ] irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1766, "jet of water," from French douche (16c.), from Italian doccia "shower," from docciare "to spray," from Latin ductionem "a leading," from ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Meaning "vaginal cleansing" is from 1833. The verb is first attested 1838. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A douche is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself. Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina , but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douche \Douche\, n. [F., fr. It. doccia, fr. docciare to flow, pour, fr. an assumed LL. ductiare, fr. L. ducere, ductum, to lead, conduct (water). See Duct .] A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ They rinsed them in fluid from a douche cup into which the nurse had tipped some prepared solution.
Usage examples of douche.
Douching, or showering the genital organs with cold water once or twice a day will also be beneficial.
Again, a lot of the stuff you could find at any curandero's: leaves for rubbing against a new mother's back to relive afterpangs, herbs to stimulate milk in women with new babies, a douche of ayo nelhuati herb and eagle dung for pregnant women: all more or less harmless.
There was an immediate burble of approbation: Gwyn, it seemed, had douched the entire company in common sense and plain humanity.
So I douched her and checked her calendar with her and she Game around, just fine three days later, and she stopped being scared.
Not only was she a tremendous bitch, each meeting with her led him to believe that some women douched with liquid nitrogen.
Lines like, "My dreams would grow hair on a heron I have douched a dead duck with maraschino I have danced with Dahmer in my denims from the Gap I hide an apricot beneath my Calvin Kleins" Lines like those -- I don't begin to know what they mean yet they make me feel a sense of awe and transcendence.
Actual illness generally results only when Mother has been interfering with the child either by douches or knitting needles or some such thing.
Gunsbourg materializes the ghostly flames and presents them as a mob of hopping figures, he throws douches of cold water on the imagination of the listeners.
Some people believe they can't get pregnant if the female doesn't have a climax or douches with pickle juice or if sex is done standing up.
Half angry, half lustful, Clay went to the bathroom door and opened it to find Enid douching herself.
With so many Japs every day, douching seemed a pitiful stick in the wind against pregnancy and disease.
And of course, many more traditional activities were going on, such as douching, makeup removal, moisturizing, and the like.
I require my beauty sleep, and first I must have my olive-oil douche and bath.
Use contraceptives, not a knitting needle or the douche bag,19 to hold down population.
Tailed him on the douche bag over, rode right next to them at the rail.