shampoo

shampoo
\ \ [18] Hindi chāmpō means ‘press!’ It is an imperative form of chāmpnāpress’, or more specifically ‘knead the muscles’. The English in India took the word up in the 18th century as a verb meaning ‘massage’, but by the middle of the 19th century we find it being used in the accepted modern sense, ‘wash the hair’.
\ \ The linking factor was presumably the vigorous massaging action typically applied to the scalp when shampooing the hair.

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