douche

suomi-englanti sanakirja

douche englannista suomeksi

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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1892|author=Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet|title=Buxton and its Medicinal Waters|location=London|publisher=John Heywood|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30682/30682.txt
1898 Lagerlöf|Selma Lagerlöf (trans. Pauline Bancroft Flach), ''Gösta Berling's Saga|The Story of Gösta Berling'', Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, Part II, Chapter I, p. 249 https://archive.org/details/storygstaberlin02lagegoog

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.

{{quote-text|en|year=1973|translator=Cecil Parrott|author=Jaroslav Hašek|title=The Good Soldier Švejk|chapter=4|page=32|publisher=William Heinemann|location=London
Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
A jet or spray of any liquid.
(RQ:Wells War of the Worlds)
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(quote-song)
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To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse
{{quote-text|en|year=1926|author=D. H. Lawrence|title=The Plumed Serpent|chapter=II|publisher=Knopf|location=New York
{{quote-text|en|year=1938|author=Xavier Herbert|title=(novel)|Capricornia|url=https://archive.org/details/capricornianovel00herb|chapter=VI|page=81
{{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=Edna O'Brien|title=and Tide (novel)|Time and Tide|location=New York|publisher=Farrar Straus Giroux|chapter=9|page=66
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Valerie Allen|title=On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave MacMillan|page=153
To use a douche.
(quote-journal)
shower

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