# douche
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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 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, 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.
* Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
* (obsolete) A jet or spray of any liquid.
** 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Thunder-Child”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, page 77, column 1:A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment. When his eyes were clear of that he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward.
* (slang, humorous, 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, 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

#### Derived terms

* douche bag, douchebag
* douche boat
* douchebro
* doucheburger
* douchecanoe
* douche chills
* doucheface
* douchefag
* douchehole
* douchelord
* doucheness
* douche nozzle, douche-nozzle
* doucher
* douchery
* douchetastic
* douchetuber
* douchewad
* douchewaffle
* douchewagon
* douchey, douchy
* megadouche

#### Related terms

* doos

#### Translations
### 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, 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, 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.
* (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, →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.)

#### Derived terms

* douche down
* undouched

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

##### Alternative forms

* does (nonstandard spelling reflecting informal pronunciation)

##### Derived terms

* douchecabine
* douchegel
* douchegordijn
* douchehok
* douchekop
* douchen

##### Descendants

* → Indonesian: dus (“shower”)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

douche
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of douchen

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian doccia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* → 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 (ntous)
* → Hungarian: tus
* → Latvian: duša
* → Lithuanian: dušas
* → Norwegian: dusj
* → Occitan: docha
* → Persian: دوش (duš)
* → 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.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French douche, from Italian doccia. Doublet of dus.

### Noun

douche (plural douche-douche)
* shower: an instance of using of bathing device in order to bathe oneself.

### Further reading

* “douche” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French douche, from Italian doccia.

### Noun

douche f (plural douches)
* (Jersey) shower