Noun: douche
| Singular | douche |
| Plural | douches |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1892, Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet, Buxton and its Medicinal Waters, London: John Heywood:]
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1898 Selma Lagerlöf (trans. Pauline Bancroft Flach), The Story of Gösta Berling, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, Part II, Chapter I, p. 249 https://archive.org/details/storygstaberlin02lagegoog
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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.
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In the bathroom, they immersed him in a tub of warm water, and then pulled him out and put him under a cold douche. [1973, Jaroslav Hašek, chapter 4, in Cecil Parrott, transl., The Good Soldier Švejk, London: William Heinemann, page 32:]
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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. [1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Thunder-Child”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C[yril] Arthur Pearson, published 1897, page 77, column 1:]
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You say our records are offensive, (You're a douche, you're a douche.) [1991, “Startin' Up a Posse”, in Attack of the Killer B's, performed by Anthrax:]
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I am saying this to you, John Edward. You are a liar, you are a fake, and you are the biggest douche ever. [2002 November 27, Trey Parker, “The Biggest Douche in the Universe” (16:05), in South Park, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Stan:]
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I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out [2019, “Never Fight a Man With a Perm”, in Joy as an Act of Resistance, performed by Idles:]
Nouns inflected like douche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”). See: French Nouns '
douche', Italian Nouns '
doccia'.