douche
See also: douché
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”). Sense 4 from douche bag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duːʃ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -uːʃ
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,
- 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
- 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,
- Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
- (obsolete) A jet or spray of any liquid.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 183:
- A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment. When his eyes were clear again, he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward.
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- (slang, derogatory, vulgar) Ellipsis of douchebag: A contemptible person; a worthless, brainless or disgusting person.
- 1991, “Startin' Up a Posse”, in Attack of the Killer B's, performed by Anthrax:
- You say our records are offensive, (You're a douche, you're a douche.)
- 2002 November 27, Trey Parker, “The Biggest Douche in the Universe”, in South Park, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Stan, 16:05:
- I am saying this to you, John Edward. You are a liar, you are a fake, and you are the biggest douche ever.
- 2019, “Never Fight a Man With a Perm”, in Joy as an Act of Resistance, performed by Idles:
- I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
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Derived terms
Derived terms
- douche bag, douchebag
- douche boat
- douchecanoe
- douche chills
- douchelord
- douche nozzle/douche-nozzle
- douchy
Related terms
- doos
Translations
a jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally
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a syringe
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jerk, idiot — see douchebag
Verb
douche (third-person singular simple present douches, present participle douching, simple past and past participle douched)
- (transitive) 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,
- 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,
- (intransitive) To use a douche.
Translations
to use a douche
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duʃ/
Audio (file) - 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 corresponding lemma form.
Verb
douche
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of douchen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian doccia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duʃ/
audio (file)
Noun
douche f (plural douches)
- shower
- (juggling) shower
Derived terms
- douche dorée
- douche écossaise
- douche froide
Verb
douche
- inflection of doucher:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Derived terms
- douche vaginale
Related terms
- doucher
- douchette
Descendants
Descendants
- → Albanian: dush
- → Arabic: دوش
- → Belarusian: душ (duš)
- → Brazilian Portuguese: ducha
- → Bulgarian: душ (duš)
- → Catalan: dutxa
- → Danish: douche
- → Dutch: douche
- → English: douche
- → Estonian: dušš
- → Friulian: duše
- → German: Dusche
- → Greek: ντους (dous)
- → Hungarian: tus
- → Latvian: duša
- → Lithuanian: dušas
- → Norwegian: dusj
- → Occitan: docha
- → Persian: دوش
- → Portuguese: duche
- → Romanian: duș
- → Russian: душ (duš)
- → Serbo-Croatian: tuš
- → Slovene: tuš
- → Spanish: ducha
- → Swedish: dusch
- → Turkish: duş
- → Ukrainian: душ (duš)
See also
- bain
Further reading
- “douche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French douche, from Italian doccia.
Noun
douche f (plural douches)
- (Jersey) shower