FromMiddle Englishrinsen,rensen,rencen(“to rinse”), fromOld Frenchrincier,reinser,Old Northern Frenchraïncer(“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly fromOld Norsehreinsa, fromProto-Germanic*hrainisōną(“to clean, purify”), fromProto-Indo-European*krey-(“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old Frenchrecincier, fromLatinrecentare(“to make fresh”).
Cognate withFrenchrincer. From the Germanic verb areDanishrense,Norwegianrense,Swedishrensa (all “to clean”),Old High Germanreinisōn(“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related toGermanrein(“pure”),Gothic𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃(hrains,“clean”), and Englishriddle. The Latin verb is related torecent.
rinse (third-person singular simple presentrinses,present participlerinsing,simple past and past participlerinsed)
- (transitive) Towash (something) quickly usingwater and nosoap.
You'd betterrinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
- (transitive) Toremovesoap from (something) usingwater.
Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
- (transitive) Toswish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, inGalaxy Science Fiction[1], page51:Oscar uncapped his beer,rinsed the first mouthful around.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
You gotrinsed.
2020 August 7,Joseph Bizinger,Garnt Maneetapho,Connor Marc Colquhoun, “Our Dark Past with Anime YouTube” (2:25 from the start), inTrash Taste[2], season 1, episode10 (podcast), spoken by Connor Marc Colquhoun (Connor Marc Colquhoun), Tokyo, Japan: YouTube, archived fromthe original on2020-10-19:I think that's a British thing though. Like, I gotrinsed for playing video games.
to wash something quickly using water and no soap
- Arabic:شَطَفَ(šaṭafa)
- Azerbaijani:yaxalamaq
- Bikol Central:ragnaw
- Bulgarian:изплаквам (bg)(izplakvam)
- Catalan:esbandir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:沖 /冲 (zh)(chōng),沖洗 /冲洗 (zh)(chōngxǐ)
- Czech:opláchnout,oprat (cs)
- Danish:skylle (da),spule
- Esperanto:akvumi (eo)
- Finnish:huuhdella (fi),huuhtoa (fi)
- French:rincer (fr)
- Middle French:rincer
- Galician:eslavar,enxaugar,pafexar,galdrexar,xabucar,laburexar,caldexar
- German:spülen (de)
- Greek:ξεπλένω (el)(xepléno)
- Haitian Creole:rense
- Hebrew:שטף (he)(shatáf)
- Hungarian:öblít (hu)
- Ido:rinsar (io)
- Ingrian:veruttaa,huuhtoa
- Italian:risciacquare,sciacquare (it)
- Japanese:濯ぐ (ja)(susugu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:ئاو تێوەردان(aw têwerdan)
- Ladino:enshaguar
- Latin:eluo
- Lithuanian:skalauti,praskalauti,išskalauti
- Maori:opeope
- Meänkieli:viruttaa
- Middle English:rincen
- Norman:rinchi
- Norwegian:rense
- Polish:płukać (pl)
- Portuguese:enxaguar (pt)
- Quechua:ch'uyanay
- Romanian:clăti (ro)
- Russian:полоска́ть (ru) impf(poloskátʹ),спола́скивать (ru) impf(spoláskivatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic:sgol
- Spanish:enjuagar (es)
- Swedish:skölja (sv)
- Urdu:کھنگالنا(khaṅgālnā)
- Vietnamese:tráng (vi)
|
to remove soap from something using water
rinse (pluralrinses)
- The action of rinsing.
I'll just give this knife a quickrinse.
- Aliquidused to rinse, now particularly ahairdye.
I had a hennarinse yesterday.
- ^Hans Kurath and Raven Ioor McDavid (1961).The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States: based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 130–131.
- Rines,ESRIN,Neris,Siren,NIESR,Reins,rines,Siner,Isner,siren,Risen,reins,risen,resin,serin
