champoo
champoo is the obsolete spelling of shampoo.
Meaning of shampoo
Noun
shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)
- A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- Synonyms:
- massage
- A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.
- These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
- Synonyms:
- shampooing
- Champagne.
Forms of champoo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | champoos |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | champoos |
| present participle | champooing |
| past participle | champooed |
| past | champooed |
Questions about champoo
- What is champoo the obsolete spelling of?
- Champoo is the obsolete spelling of shampoo.
Words near champoo in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: champoo (page history and authors); shampoo (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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