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Definition: Douche |
DoucheNoun1. A small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas. 2. 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. Verb1. Direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "douche" was first used: 1766. (references) |
Etymology: Douche \Douche\, noun. [French expression, from Italian doccia, from docciare to flow, pour, from an assumed late Latin ductiare, from the Latin expression ducere, ductum, to lead, conduct (water). See Duct.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A procedure in which water or a medicated solution is used to clean the vagina and cervix. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching. The term "douche bag" is also a popular derogatory term of insult or ridicule. (See: sexual slang)
It should be noted that douching after sexual intercourse is not effective as a means of contraception.
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Douche."
Synonym: DoucheSynonym: douche bag (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Water | Dilution, maceration, lotion; washing. Verb: immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Douche |
| English words defined with "douche": Douche bath. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "douche": bagbiter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "douche": Duct. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Douche" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (shower), French (damper, douche, douching, shower), Ruanda (shower). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Douche bag. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) The Double Douche! (Road House; writing credit: David Lee Henry) No dude, your a douche. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) That's because you're a douche bag. (...And Justice for All; writing credit: Valerie Curtin; Barry Levinson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Douche d'eau bouillante (1907) Douche après le bain (1897) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The douche / T.O. delt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The ascending douche T.O. delt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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 | Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The same instruction would apply to a new vaginal spray, douche, sanitary napkin, or tampon. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Douche" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Douche" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "douche": douche bag ♦ Douche bath ♦ take a douche ♦ vaginal douche. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
douche | 551 | de douche les ma pommes | 6 |
douche bag | 99 | alum douche | 6 |
la douche | 36 | bain douche | 5 |
douche picture | 27 | douche vaginale | 5 |
vaginal douche | 20 | massengill douche | 5 |
anal douche | 20 | cabine de douche | 5 |
betadine douche | 14 | advertentie douche | 5 |
douche de sperme | 12 | bag douche moms | 5 |
douche syringe | 12 | douche homemade | 5 |
douche pic | 12 | douche photo | 5 |
douche la sous | 11 | close douche free | 4 |
douche enema | 10 | douche story | 4 |
cabine douche | 10 | douche onder | 4 |
vinegar douche | 8 | douche yogurt | 4 |
baking soda douche | 8 | douche lavement | 4 |
douche fetish | 7 | golden douche | 4 |
douche bulb | 7 | douche naakt rugby | 4 |
douche vagina | 6 | male douche | 4 |
de douche onder | 6 | nasal douche | 4 |
de douche ma pommes | 6 | de douche porte | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "douche"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dush (bath, shower bath), sprej, spërkatje (aspersion, damping, splash, splutter, spraying, sprinkling), spërkat me sprej, shishkë (caster, Castor, phial, vial), bombol, bëj dush. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منضحة, نضح (asperse, aspersion, exudation, exude, ooze, perfusion, pulverization, pulverize, spray, sprinkle, spurt, sweat, transpiration), حمام (bath, bathroom, rest room, shower, tub, water closet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обливане (affusion), обливам с вода, промиване (ablution, flush, lavement, sluice), правя промивка, душ (shower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sprcha (shower, shower bath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | douche (shower), overbrusning (shower), bruser (shower), brusebad (shower), bruse (shower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | douche (shower), vaginale spoeling, stortbad (shower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تمیزکردن بادوش , دوش گرفتن (Shower), دوش اب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huuhteluruisku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | douche (douching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dusche (shower, shower bath), duschen (have a shower, shower, showers, to douche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω ντουσ, καταιόνηση (shower), ντουσιέρα (shower), ντουσ (shower, shower bath), πλύση μέσω ραντίσματοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משטפת, מקלחת (bath, shower, shower bath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zuhany (dousing, needle bath, shower, shower-bath), tus (black ink, butt, clack ink, flourish, india ink, indian ink, ink, shower), irrigátor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pancuran (fountain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | doccia (shower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 注水 (flooding, pouring water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちゅうすい (appendix, flooding, pouring water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | strulley (rinse; rinsing, swill, wash, wash utensils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oucheday duche (shower), ducha (shower), voar (aviate, fleet, flit, flown, fly), rebentar (braird, bud, burgeon, burst, comb, detonate, disrupt, explode, gemmate, part, pop, rive, rupture, split), parir (calve, cast, cub, farrow, fawn, foal, give birth, give birth to, kid, kitten, lamb, pup, teem, yean), levantar vôo subitamente, fazer rebentar, esguichar (flush, gush, jet, spirt, spout, spurt, spurt out, swash), enrubescer (flush), encher de água (waterlog), alçar vôo (take off). (various references) duş (shower, shower bath, spray), stropitoare (sprinkler), spãlãturã (enema, lavement, wash, washing), jet (gush, gust, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt). (various references) душ (shower, shower bath, shower-bath). (various references) tuširati se (take a shower), tuš (indian ink, shower, shower bath), prskanje (spatter, splash, spraying, sprinkling), polivanje (damping, perfusion, sprinkling). (various references) ducha (shower, shower bath). (various references) dusch (shower, shower bath, shower-bath). (various references) การฉี"ล้างร่างกาย, ฉี"ล้างร่างกาย. (various references) duşlamak, duş (needle bath, shower, shower bath), mikrop öldürmek amacıyla yıkama, ilaçlı su, şırınga etmek (inject, syringe), şırınga (hype, hypotermic needle, injection syringe, squirt, syringe, vaccinator), antiseptik suyla yıkamak, antiseptik su. (various references) шприц (squirt, syringe), промивати (backwash, bathe, clean, scour, sluice, wash), промивання (ablution, abstersion, sluice, washing, washout), приймати душ, душ (shower). (various references) vòi tắm hương sen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cataclysmus, ductionem. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | doccia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "douche": douched, douches. (additional references) | |
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"Douche" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bouche, boucho, Daoukou, daucha, dauke, Dechhen, Deguchi, Delchev, deuche, Dhorcha, Diolch, Doake, doch, dochay, doche, Dohuk, Dokuchaev, dolche, doncha, douc, doucer, Douch, doucje, douh, douhe, douker, Doulce, dousche, doush, doushe, doute, Duchac, duche, Duchek, Duchen, dueche, Duibhe, dukhha, duoce, Fouche, mouche, Nouchi, Oiche, Oouchi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ouched. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-o-u" | |
-1 letter: coude, douce. | |
-2 letters: code, coed, cued, deco, duce, echo, hoed, hued, ohed, ouch. | |
-3 letters: cod, cud, cue, doc, doe, due, duh, duo, ecu, edh, hod, hoe, hue, ode, oud, udo. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, eh, he, ho, od, oe, oh, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-o-u" | |
+1 letter: choused, couched, coughed, debouch, douched, douches, hocused, mouched, pouched, touched, vouched. | |
+2 letters: avouched, chorused, crouched, debouche, grouched, hocussed, outchide, slouched, unchoked. | |
+3 letters: chondrule, chorussed, cushioned, debouched, debouches, deckhouse, doughface, echiuroid, eunuchoid, headcount, hummocked, outchided, outchides, outechoed, retouched, unclothed, untouched, vouchered. | |
+4 letters: chondrules, coauthored, debouching, deckhouses, doughfaces, echiuroids, eunuchoids, headcounts, hiccoughed, mistouched, outbitched, outcharged, outcharmed, outcheated, outchidden, outcoached, outmarched, outmatched, outpitched, outpunched, outreached, outschemed, outwatched, scouthered, unanchored, unschooled, vouchsafed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 75 63 68 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- ..- -.-. .... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110101 01100011 01101000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o u c h e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0075 0063 0068 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388187697471 |
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