douche

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /duːʃ/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːʃ

Noun[edit]

douche (plural douches)

  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 irrigation.
    • 1892, Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet, Buxton and its Medicinal Waters‎[1], 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 [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, chapter 4, in Cecil Parrott, transl., The Good Soldier Švejk, London: William Heinemann, page 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.
  2. Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
  3. (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.
  4. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) Ellipsis of douchebag (“objectionable 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” (16:05), in South Park‎[3], season 6, episode 15, spoken by Stan:
      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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Translations[edit]

a jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally
jerk, idiot — see douchebag

Verb[edit]

douche (third-person singular simple present douches, present participle douching, simple past and past participle douched)

  1. (transitive) To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse
    • 1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter II, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Knopf:
      […] 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, chapter VI, in Capricornia‎[4], page 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, chapter 9, in Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 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, page 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.
  2. (intransitive) To use a douche.
    • 2023 October 1, Jordyn Holman, “Gen Z Wants Feminine Care Brands to Just Say Vagina”, in The New York Times‎[5], →ISSN:
      (In a 2002 study, 58.5 percent of Black women reported douching and 35.6 percent of Hispanic women said they did the same, compared with 26.6 percent of white women.)

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /duʃ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: dou‧che

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”). See also does (“shower head”).

Noun[edit]

douche m or f (plural douches, diminutive doucheje n)

  1. shower
    Synonym: stortbad
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Descendants[edit]
  • → Indonesian: dus (“shower”)

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

douche

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of douchen

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian doccia.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

douche f (plural douches)

  1. shower
  2. (juggling) shower

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Verb[edit]

douche

  1. inflection of doucher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French douche, from Italian doccia.

Noun[edit]

douche f (plural douches)

  1. (Jersey) shower
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