Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hairwashing

/ˈhɛ(ɹ)wɑʃ.ɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hair-wash-ing
IPA: /ˈhɛ(ɹ)wɑʃ.ɪŋ/

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The washing of hair.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket."
"Hagar did not come back to me for my massages, manicures, and hairwashings."
"We read to these children in tender tones, loving the snuggled warmth of their bodies, delighting in their baths and hairwashings and in their little clothes; enjoying the feel of their hands in ours on our long, naming-the-world walks."
"Sometimes, she thought, Craig Gleniston did display those endearingly out-of-touch characteristics one expected of an academic—he’d evidently never heard of the short haircuts and blowdriers that made it unnecessary to give over an entire evening to hairwashing."

Etymology

From hair + washing.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

hairwashings (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce hairwashing?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɛ(ɹ)wɑʃ.ɪŋ/.
What does hairwashing mean?: The washing of hair.
Where does hairwashing come from?: From hair + washing.

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