grooming
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]grooming
- present participle and gerund of groom
Noun
[edit]grooming (usually uncountable, plural groomings)
- Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
- I'm sorry, I believe in good grooming.
- (biology) The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.
- The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
- Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
- The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
- (software engineering) In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog. (Now increasingly termed refinement instead.)
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (care for one's appearance): personal hygiene – more basic level of care
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]care for one's appearance
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act of teaching
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caring for horses
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attempting to gain the trust of a child or vulnerable person for sexual purposes
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See also
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Sexual grooming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]grooming m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “grooming”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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