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/grˈumɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Groom v. i. (past & past part. groomed; pres. part. grooming) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

noun

grooming n.

Preparing a person for a position requiring skilled behavior, especially by providing opposrtunity for practise and guidance in making the right decisions; as, to provide grooming for one's successor as president.

Synonyms: training, preparation.

The activity of getting dressed, washed and generally of neat appearance.

Synonyms: dressing.

The activity of cleaning oneself or others by removing lice, ticks, dirt, etc. from the fur; of animals.

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Etymology of 'Grooming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grooming" Quotes from Famous Books

... up-to-date child of her, John. She's got her mother's eyes but the Randolph features. With a little grooming she'd make a beauty. And the first thing I'd do would be to put ...

— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott

... great moral support in the process from the production of a phthisical expiration of his breath, between clenched teeth, resulting in a sibilant hiss. Like most ritualistic practices this habit has a utilitarian origin: it serves to keep the dust of grooming from entering the lungs. But in process of time it has acquired a touch of mysticism, and is supposed to soothe the horse and sustain the man. Had Hawkins not been absorbed in a localised attention to Tommy's fetlocks he would have observed that his charge ...

— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... day Roscoe was able to move about in his tepee without pain. Oachi and her father were with him when, for the first time, he got out his comb and military brushes and began grooming his touselled hair. Oachi watched him, and suddenly, seeing the wondering pleasure in her eyes, he held out the brushes to her. "You may have them, Oachi," he said, and the girl accepted them with a soft little cry of ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

... seat upon the box of a G.S. waggon, he was bidden to walk behind the same, applying the brake when necessary, for fourteen miles. The next day he spent cleaning stables, under a particularly officious corporal. On the third, he was instructed in the art of grooming a mule. On the fourth, he was left to perform this feat unaided, and the mule, acting under extreme provocation, kicked him in the stomach. On the fifth day he ...

— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay

... aside the trailing tendrils and looked out and down. The whole castle lay spread below them, with the busy people unconsciously intent upon the matters of their daily work. They could see the gardener, with bowed back, patiently working among the flowers in the garden, the stable-boys below grooming the horses, a bevy of ladies in the privy garden playing at shuttlecock with battledoors of wood, a group of gentlemen walking up and down in front of the Earl's house. They could see the household servants hurrying hither and thither, two little scullions ...

— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle

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