DOUCHE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Douche

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/duʃ/ Listen

Douche

noun

A small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas. Synonym: douche bag.

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.

verb

Direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning.

See more definitions of Douche...

See images of 'Douche'

Etymology of 'Douche'

Related search:

douche bag

Share |

"Douche" Quotes from Famous Books

... lurking cynicism there is in some of his interiors! Voila l'animale! he exclaims as he shows us the far from enchanting antics of some girl. How Schopenhauer would laugh at the feminine "truths" of Degas! Without the leer of Rops, Degas is thrice as unpleasant. He is a douche for the romantic humbug painter, the painter of sleek bayaderes and ...

— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... dazzling talent, the personality in view; extravagant enthusiasms which, for want of words to express themselves, disappear as they come; the conventional admirations of society, moved by good-will, by a lively desire to please, but of which each word is a douche of cold water; and then the hearty hand-shakes of rivals, of comrades, some very frank, others that communicate to you the weakness of their grasp; the pretentious great booby, at whose idiotic eulogy you must appear to be transported with gladness, ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... body with the icy water of the douche and rang for John who stood outside of the door with ...

— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann

... friends . . . there would be great festivities in the Glen . . . perhaps he would be asked to propose the bride's health . . . It really seemed a providence that Saunderson should come along the road when he was playing the fool like a puling boy, for if any man could give a douche to love-sickness it ...

— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... fast relapsing into his own reflections, wondering what Solomon was doing in the dark, and if he slept much, when an event occurred which roused him as thoroughly as the prick of a lance or a sudden douche of cold water. ...

— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

More quotes...