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Shampoo vs Shampoolike - What's the difference?

shampoo | shampoolike |

As a noun shampoo

is a traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.

As a verb shampoo

is to wash one's own hair with shampoo.

As an adjective shampoolike is

resembling or characteristic of shampoo.

shampoo

Noun

(en noun)
  • A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
  • A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
  • An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
  • I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo .
  • (humorous, slang) Champagne (wine).
  • Synonyms

    * shampooing * (champagne) bubbly, champers, fizz

    Descendants

    * German:

    See also

    * conditioner

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
  • My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
  • To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
  • To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    shampoolike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Resembling or characteristic of shampoo.
  • * 1996 , Paul Henson, Donald J. Usner, Valerie A. Kells, The Natural History of Big Sur
  • Others, such as wavy-leaf soap plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum ), were used to stupefy and catch fish in the streams and to make a shampoolike soap.
  • * 2004 , Scott Westerfeld, So yesterday
  • It foamed up in a very shampoolike way. In the mirror a wild-eyed, peroxided stranger who had clearly gone insane stared back at me.

    Synonyms

    * shampooey