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grooming

  • noun
  • /ˈɡɹuːmɪŋ/

Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.

Example

“I believe in good grooming.”

Other meanings

  1. The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.

  2. The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.

Related words

  • allogrooming
  • autogrooming
  • cybergrooming
  • hypergrooming
  • nongrooming
  • snow grooming

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “grooming” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.