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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans doos, from Dutch doos. Doublet of dose.

Noun

doos

1. (South Africa, vulgar) vagina
2. (South Africa, vulgar) stupid person

Anagrams

• SoDo

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch doos (“box, vagina, stupid”), from Middle Dutch dose.

Noun

doos (plural dose, diminutive dosie)

1. box
2. (vulgar) vagina, cunt
3. (derogatory, slang) idiot, stupid person

Synonyms

• (box): boks

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dose (since 1361), probably from Latin dosis (“the small box in which a dose of medication was given”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?s/
• Hyphenation: doos
• Rhymes: -o?s

Noun

doos f (plural dozen, diminutive doosje n)

1. box
2. (vulgar) vagina
3. (derogatory, vulgar) stupid female, cunt (objectionable woman)
4. (informal) prison

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: doos
  • ? English: doos
• ? Indonesian: dus (“box”)
• ? Sranan Tongo: dosu

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)

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.
   • 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.

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.
4. (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)

1. 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.

2. 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)

1. 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

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of douchen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian doccia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?/

Noun

douche f (plural douches)

1. shower
2. (juggling) shower

Derived terms

Verb

douche

1. first-person singular present indicative of doucher
2. third-person singular present indicative of doucher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doucher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doucher
5. 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)

1. (Jersey) shower