douche means 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. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 75 out of 100.
noun
- 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.“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.”
- Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
- A jet or spray of any liquid.“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.”
verb
- To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse“[…] 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.”
- To use a douche.“(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.)”