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grooming

grooming

30 2.2
Caring for hair and appearance to look neat
  • noun
  • /ˈɡruːmɪŋ/
: aseo personal
  • Good personal grooming involves keeping your hair neat and wearing clean clothes.
  • personal grooming
  • grooming and dressing
  • beauty and grooming

This trimmer will change the way you approach your grooming routine.

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Examples

  • Like Manscaped is a global leader in men's grooming and hygiene, creating the world's first all in one men's grooming kit that covers you from head to toe.

  • Every morning, the students would fulfill their jobs for Hope's upkeep, including grooming and feeding.

    Academic text (2013)
  • With the right grooming and handling... we'll go a lot further.

  • So I keep boxes and boxes of grooming products here and other products there.

  • Very suitable for male grooming, completing the look.

  • This trimmer will change the way you approach your grooming routine.

  • It was men's grooming, but they switched it to skin care at the last second.

  • Once again revolutionizing men's grooming with brand new Beard Hedger Pro Kit.

  • Lawlessness is rampant, panic stalks the streets, and personal grooming habits have reached an all-time low.

  • And if you want to pamper your furry friends, head over to petsmart.com to book a grooming or just a walk in for a standalone service.

Synonyms

hair care
vsgrooming
10 1.3

Looking after hair by washing, cutting, and treating it

is broader covering overall appearance and neatness beyond scalp and strands
styling
vsgrooming
10 3.5

Arranging hair and beard to look neat or fashionable

is about care and neatness rather than creating a new visual design
hairdressing
vsgrooming
5 2.5

The activity of cutting, styling, and caring for people's hair

is the everyday personal process to keep oneself neat and clean rather than service

Compounds

A popular new way to cut and care for pets' fur

A small tool used to clean and make hair or skin look nice

How Neat

grooming
30 2.2
neglect
94 3.5

Surface Forms

grooming singular
groomings plural

Morphology

grooming = groom (transparent) = groom + ing

A direct gerund/nominalization from the verb 'groom' meaning to clean or make neat; the noun denotes that action and is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Grooming comes from the word groom, which was a helper who cared for horses and would 'clean and brush' them, so the image is of someone making an animal neat and tidy.