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▪ I. douche, n.
(‖ duʃ, duːʃ)
[a. F. douche spout, stream of water, 16th c. ad. It. doccia conduit-pipe, f. docciare to pour by drops:—L. type *ductiare, f. ductus leading, lead, conduit, f. dūcĕre to lead.]
1. a. A jet or stream of water, or the like, applied to some part of the body, generally for medicinal purposes; the application of this; an instrument for administering it.
[1685Cotton tr. Montaigne II. 710 So the Italians have their doccie..and with them bath an hour in the morning.] 1766Smollett Trav. 351 This last operation called douche, is more effectually undergone in the private bath. 1835Penny Cycl. IV. 33/2 A stream of water falling on the head..It is called the cold dash, or douche, or douse. 1844Dufton Deafness 107 The air-press should be used, as recommended for applying the air-douche. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. xi, It was rather like a douche of cold water on Mrs. Kirkpatrick's plans. 1894Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 24 To send down a douche of ice-cold air upon us.
b. spec. a jet of water (or a solution of water and other substances) introduced into the vagina as a means of cleansing the uterus and cervix, treating infection and haemorrhage, or esp. preventing conception after intercourse; (a substance for) vaginal or uterine lavage. Also with defining word, as (intra-)uterine douche, vaginal douche. orig. U.S.
[1833Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. I. 316 The douches ascendantes, those administered in diseases of the uterus.] 1887J. H. Williamson tr. Winckel's Diseases of Women ii. iii. 131 Injections and douches are by no means so innocent as is generally supposed..because instant death has resulted from pumping air into these cavities. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict. I. 549/1 Uterine douche, a device to irrigate the womb. 1901C. A. L. Reed Textbk. Gynecol. ii. 10 The use of the vaginal douche immediately after intercourse,..the ‘womb caps’, condoms, are all damaging expedients. 1923M. Stopes Contraception v. 116 Innumerable vaginal douches are on the market. 1953G. B. Carter et al. Dict. Midwifery (1963) 147/2 A midwife is sometimes called upon to give an intra-uterine douche, but the treatment is unsuitable if she is single handed. 1972M. Mead Blackberry Winter ix. 103 We knew that she ought not have a baby yet, and we compiled a five-page typed list of home remedies that could be used as a douche. 1987N.Y. Times 4 Mar. 8/3 In addition to reducing the risk of pregnancy,..the douche may flush virus-containing cells from the vagina.
2. attrib. and Comb., as douche-bath; douche-bag, (a) a sterile receptacle for the fluid when administering a douche; freq. applied to the whole apparatus used for douching, including rubber tubing, nozzles, etc.; (b) U.S. slang, a general term of disparagement, esp. for an unattractive or boring person; cf. bag n. 17 ; douche can, glass = douche bag (a).
1908C. Macfarlane Ref. Handbk. Gynecol. for Nurses 35 Hang the *douche-bag eighteen inches above the level of the patient's hips. 1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 109 Over the bedstead hangs a douche-bag which he keeps for emergencies. 1966Observer (Colour Suppl.) 20 Mar. 41/2 A few belts, a tweed beret and a douche bag were all that was left of Eva Braun's envied wardrobe. 1967Amer. Speech XLII. 228 Douche bag, n. phr., an unattractive co-ed. By extension, any individual whom the speaker desires to deprecate. 1968Punch 20 Nov. 718/2 ‘Send them away!’ she hissed. ‘If they are found here, those douche-bags will incriminate us all.’ 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 24/5, I had begun to like the naturalistic black writer who will never live in his native land. Pollution, violence, and the douche bag of American problems have something to do with it.
1868Daily News 7 Aug., A..bath-house, with plunge-bath, *douche-bath, and shower-baths of different sorts. 1883J. Payn Thicker than Water xxxv. 275, I don't mind a sprinkling; but no one likes a douche bath of it.
1908Practitioner Oct. 579 At first I used an ordinary enamelled tin *douche-can.
Ibid., It is an advantage..to be able to watch the limb which is being congested, and so I now use a cylindrical *douche-glass.
▪ II. douche, v.
[f. prec. n.; cf. F. doucher.]
1. trans. To administer a douche to; to douse.
1838Lady Granville Lett. 21 July (1894) II. 261 A little douching and bathing is the best possible thing. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 350 Douched and drenched in dirty water. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 618 If one or two good force pumps and hose are on board, every man should be douched.
b. intr. (for refl.) To take a douche.
1843Sir C. Scudamore Med. Visit Gräfenberg 19 One..who had regularly douched through the winter every day for eight minutes.
2. spec. To administer a vaginal douche (to). Also with out.
a. trans. To apply a douche to (the vagina).
b. intr. and refl. Of a woman: to use a vaginal douche after intercourse, as a contraceptive measure. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1898H. A. Kelly Operative Gynecol. I. viii. 163 If there are any offensive discharges the vagina is douched out with a warm boric or carbolic solution. 1907H. Brown Wife Bk. xx. 188 Neither the doctor nor nurse will douche the vagina after an ordinary labor. 1923M. Stopes Contraception v. 117 ‘Birth Controllers’ in general have encouraged women to douche daily, or often ‘as an ordinary measure of hygienic cleanliness’. 1963M. McCarthy Group iii. 52 Dottie would be taught how and when to douche, how much water to use, the proper height for the douche bag, [etc.]. 1969A. Guttmacher Birth Control & Love (ed. 2) vi. 87 Douche immediately after intercourse. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp i. 22 She wasn't going to douche, of course{ddd}She felt more receptive than prepared soil. 1984E. Fairweather Only Rivers run Free iii. 124, I douched myself out, too. Because of this womb trouble I was always being given douche bags.
Hence ˈdouching vbl. n.
1923M. Stopes Contraception v. 116 The habit of douching is one of the three most commonly advocated methods of birth control. 1944Miller & Bryant Gynecol. & Gynecologic Nursing xxvii. 265 Vaginal douching is used and abused so extensively that some comment..is advisable. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia II. 1067/2 Among the methods used by women, one of the oldest is ‘douching’ — the practice of flushing out the vagina, generally with a liquid solution, after coitus. |