▪ I. shampoo, n.
(ʃæmˈpuː)
[f. shampoo v.]
1. The act or operation of shampooing; also a ‘wash’ used for shampooing. Also attrib.
| 1838 Haliburton Clockm. Ser. ii. xii, Prince Shleek, will you have one shampoo? said she. A shampoo? said I; to be sure I will. 1866 Cooley Toilet 477 The ‘Shampoo Liquid’ often used by the hairdressers, after cutting the hair. 1880 Webster Suppl. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 May 14/1 The shampoo room and the general swimming tank..are the same size. 1897 Times 9 Aug. 10/3 The vessel was labelled ‘Antiseptic shampoo’. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 172/1 Soiled silk lampshades can be given a soap-and-water shampoo. 1970 Which? Aug. 251/2 Which carpet shampoo you choose depends on how much carpet you have to clean and how often you want to clean it. |
2. shampoo and set (cf. set n.1 18 b).
| 1935 A. Christie Death in Clouds xiii. 136 Is it a shampoo and set, or are you having a tint to-day? 1977 Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 1/4 Customers will have to shell out an extra 10–15 pc for a snip of the scissors or a shampoo and set in many cases. |
3. slang. Arbitrary alteration of champagne. Cf. sham n.2
| 1957 R. Longrigg Switchboard 192 ‘You'd better have some shampoo, darling.’.. ‘Shampoo?’ ‘Champagne.’ 1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo ii. 31 The waiter brings a bottle of champagne... Shampoo, Sheila dear? |
▪ II. shampoo, v.
(ʃæmˈpuː)
Also 8–9 shampo, 9 champo(e, champoo, champou, shampoe.
[Prob. a. Hindī čāmpo, imper. of čāmpnā to press. Cf. champing vbl. n.2 (from 1698).]
1. a. trans. To subject (a person, his limbs) to massage. Now rare or Obs., exc. as designating a part of the process of a Turkish bath.
| 1762 [? Noble] Voy. E. Indies, etc. 226 Had I not seen several China merchants shampooed before me, I should have been apprehensive of danger. 1780 J. Capper Let. in Observ. Passage India (1785) 26 Some people have their nails cut and also are Shampoed. 1800 Beatson View War with Tippoo 159 The Sultaun generally rose at break of day: after being champoed, and rubbed, he washed himself. 1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. II. 52 She [a Mahratta wife] first champoes her husband, and fans him to repose; she then champoes the horse. 1848 Dickens Dombey viii, Miss Pankey was shampooed every morning. 1898 Jean A. Owen Hawaii iii. 65 In Tahiti, too, a traveller, on entering a house, is always given a mat to lie on, and his weary limbs are shampooed whilst food is prepared for him. |
| absol. 1823 Mirror I. 424/1 A man and his wife who profess to Shampoo, according to the Indian manner. |
† b. transf. and fig. Obs.
| 1837 Dickens Pickw. v, The other shampoo'd Mr. Winkle with a heavy clothes brush. 1838 Haliburton Clockm. Ser. ii. xii, So our diplomatists shampoo the English, and put 'em to sleep. How beautiful they shampoo'd them in the fishery story. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xvii, Pinching the bed-curtains, poking into the feathers, shampooing the mattresses. |
2. a. (The ordinary modern sense.) To subject (the scalp) to washing and rubbing with some cleansing agent, as soap and water, shampoo powder, etc. Also absol.
| 1860 Worcester. 1881 Times 6 Jan. 4/3 The patient should have..the hair cut and shampooed, and the whole body well cleansed with carbolic soap. 1976 Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 17/4 This conditioning treatment is used before you shampoo, and so resembles the sort of reconditioning treatments available at a salon. |
b. transf. To wash (a carpet, upholstery, etc.) with a cleansing agent. Also absol.
| 1954 A. C. Moore How to clean Everything i. 138/1 Synthetic (soapless) detergents..are available in liquid, paste and powder form to shampoo hair, rugs and upholstery. 1969 Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 1359 Outdoor carpets... They'll take whatever comes in stride..resist spots, stains..just vacuum or shampoo clean. 1970 Which? Aug. 252/1 If you are going to shampoo your carpet only now and then..a cheap aerosol would be most economical. |
Hence shampooed (-ˈpuːd) ppl. a.
| 1821 R. K. Porter Trav. I. 232 This over, the shampooed body..is rubbed all over with a preparation of soap confined in a bag, till he is one mass of lather. |