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"ref": "2023 October 1, Jordyn Holman, “Gen Z Wants Feminine Care Brands to Just Say Vagina”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"ref": "1991, “Startin' Up a Posse”, in Attack of the Killer B's, performed by Anthrax",
"text": "You say our records are offensive, (You're a douche, you're a douche.)",
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"ref": "2002 November 27, Trey Parker, “The Biggest Douche in the Universe” (16:05), in South Park, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Stan",
"text": "I am saying this to you, John Edward. You are a liar, you are a fake, and you are the biggest douche ever.",
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{
"ref": "2019, “Never Fight a Man With a Perm”, in Joy as an Act of Resistance, performed by Idles",
"text": "I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"sense": "a jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "fr",
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"masculine"
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"word": "tuše"
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"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hogna",
"sense": "a syringe",
"word": "հոգնա"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "a syringe",
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"ref": "1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter II, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Knopf",
"text": "[…] 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.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 81",
"text": "Mrs. McLash's anger was gone completely, douched not nearly so much by the beer as by this attention to her son.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1992, Edna O'Brien, chapter 9, in Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 66",
"text": "The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2007, Valerie Allen, On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, page 153",
"text": "Tragedy acts then like a laxative […] or an aperient […] to douche our systems of humors and emotions that unbalance the soul, so that we may return to the virtuous golden mean, to homeostatic equilibrium.",
"type": "quotation"
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"(transitive) To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse"
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"ref": "2023 October 1, Jordyn Holman, “Gen Z Wants Feminine Care Brands to Just Say Vagina”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "(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.)",
"type": "quotation"
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"To use a douche."
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"(intransitive) To use a douche."
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to use a douche",
"word": "doucher"
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"sense": "to use a douche",
"word": "spülen"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to use a douche",
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"word": "duchar"
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