grooming

English

 Grooming on Wikipedia

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Sexual grooming

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹuːmɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ

Verb

grooming

1. present participle and gerund of groom

Noun

grooming (usually uncountable, plural groomings)

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

   I believe in good grooming.

2. (biology) The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.
3. The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
4. Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
5. The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
6. (software engineering) In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.

   Synonym: refinement

Synonyms

• (act of teaching): coaching, mentoring
• (caring for horses): currying

Coordinate terms

• (care for one's appearance): personal hygiene – more basic level of care

Derived terms

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

Translations

care for one's appearance

Apache: Western Apache: bee ídadołzhooní German: Körperpflege (de) f Greek: καλλωπισμός (el) m (kallopismós) Hungarian: ápoltság (hu) Russian: ухо́д (ru) m (uxód) Spanish: arreglo (es) m

act of teaching

German: Coaching (de) n Spanish: adiestramiento (es) m, entrenamiento (es) m, capacitación (es) f

caring for horses

German: Pferdepflege f, Tierpflege f, Fellpflege (de) f, Viehputz m Hungarian: lóápolás (hu) Russian: ухо́д (ru) m (uxód) Spanish: acicaladura (es) f

attempting to gain the trust of a child or vulnerable person for sexual purposes

Arabic: اِسْتِمَالَة الْأَطْفَال (istimālat al-ʔaṭfāl) Chinese: Mandarin: 性誘拐 / 性诱拐 (xìngyòuguǎi) Finnish: verkkoviettely, viettely (fi) German: sich vertraut machen Hungarian: becserkészés, behálózás, bizalmába férkőzés, beetetés, beédesgetés, édesgetés Portuguese: corrupção de menor f Spanish: (Mexico) sonsaque (es) m, manipulación pederasta f, sonsacamiento paidófilo m Swedish: kontakt med barn i sexuellt syfte

See also

• Sexual grooming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾumin/ [ˈɡɾu.mĩn]
• Rhymes: -umin
• Syllabification: groo‧ming

Noun

grooming m (uncountable)

1. grooming

Further reading

• “grooming”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024