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  • verb Present participle of shampoo.

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Examples

  • By the Turks, the term shampooing is applied, now borrowed by our barbers.

    Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1844

  • Derived from the Hindi word chāmpo, a verbal form meaning “to knead” or “to press” as well as “the kneading” or “the pressing,” the English word shampooing described what struck seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Western observers as exotic bodily manipulations performed in the East.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Derived from the Hindi word chāmpo, a verbal form meaning “to knead” or “to press” as well as “the kneading” or “the pressing,” the English word shampooing described what struck seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Western observers as exotic bodily manipulations performed in the East.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • French thinkers are systematic, and their approach to shampooing is no exception.

    How to Shampoo in French 2006

  • French thinkers are systematic, and their approach to shampooing is no exception.

    How to Shampoo in French 2006

  • Eventually, massaging, washing, and oiling of the scalp were together referred to as shampooing, even as some of the more popular methods of the day would have alarmed practitioners of traditional Indian medicine.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Eventually, massaging, washing, and oiling of the scalp were together referred to as shampooing, even as some of the more popular methods of the day would have alarmed practitioners of traditional Indian medicine.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • They embrace every conceivable variety of effort, and also another class of applications which may be termed shampooing, as they consist of kneading and rubbing.

    Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

  • Dean Mahomed was certainly an interesting chap. He also became so-called shampooing surgeon to George IV.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • Dean Mahomed was certainly an interesting chap. He also became so-called shampooing surgeon to George IV.

    BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content 2009

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