shampooing
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/
Verb
shampooing
- present participle and gerund of shampoo
Noun
shampooing (plural shampooings)
- The act of cleaning something with shampoo.
- The foyer carpet needed regular shampooings.
- 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- In certain moments his hair looks like it could use a shampooing.
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, from English shampoo + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃/, /ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃ɡ/
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Noun
shampooing m (plural shampooings)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
- → Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
- → Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
- → Romanian: șampon
- → Turkish: şampuan
Further reading
- “shampooing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.