shampooing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/

Verb

shampooing

1. present participle and gerund of shampoo

Noun

shampooing (plural shampooings)

1. 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

• shampoing
• champoing (adapted)

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from English shampoo +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃/, /ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃ɡ/

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Noun

shampooing m (plural shampooings)

1. shampoo

Related terms

• shampouiner
• shampouineur

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
• → Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
• → Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
  • → Armenian: շամպուն (šampun)
  • → Azerbaijani: şampun
  • → Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
  • → Lithuanian: šampūnas
• → Romanian: șampon
• → Turkish: şampuan

Further reading

• “shampooing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.