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bath balm

bath balm is the misconstruction of bath bomb.

Meaning of bath bomb

Noun

bath bomb (plural bath bombs)

  1. A hard-packed mixture of chemicals which effervesces when wet, used to add scent and colour to bathwater.

Forms of bath balm

pluralbath balms

Origin of bath balm

From the homophony in most accents of balm and bomb.

Questions about bath balm

What is bath balm the misconstruction of?
Bath balm is the misconstruction of bath bomb.

Words near bath balm in the dictionary

  1. batful
  2. batgirl
  3. batgirls
  4. bath
  5. Bath and North East Somerset
  6. bath balm
  7. bath balms
  8. bath bead
  9. bath beads
  10. bath blanket
  11. bath bomb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bath balm (page history and authors); bath bomb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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