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  • verb Present participle of lather.
  • noun The act of lathering; a covering with lather.

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Examples

  • When he had done what he called lathering my face, he began to scrape it unmercifully with his notched iron hoop; and if I struggled, he would saw it backwards and forwards over my face.

    Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Dop, as Dopal had been renamed, was advertised through lathering competitions for children, to emphasize the safety of shampooing, and the ethereal, healthy joy to be found in creating cloud formations out of suds.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Dop, as Dopal had been renamed, was advertised through lathering competitions for children, to emphasize the safety of shampooing, and the ethereal, healthy joy to be found in creating cloud formations out of suds.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Suddenly, wet shampoo treatments for use at home were far more practical, at least for those who, at the turn of a tap, had access to plenty of warm water for lathering and rinsing.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Suddenly, wet shampoo treatments for use at home were far more practical, at least for those who, at the turn of a tap, had access to plenty of warm water for lathering and rinsing.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • It'll get you clean as long as you don't mind lathering up in plain view of the road.

    The Tent People 2009

  • The old man of indiscriminate accent slapped Phil on his rear, which he was lathering at the time.

    Freedom Can Wait (The First Time) Christopher Allen 2011

  • This would leave you with only the work (about which harsh things might certainly be said, but they wouldn't be inspired by an animus against the man founded on moral disapproval rather than an estimation of the writing founded on literary judgment) and spare you the emotional energy required to work up a good lathering of moral outrage.

    The Biographical Fallacy 2009

  • I can hear the shower running and now I am imagining you all wet and lathering yourself.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • As it was, though, she decided to simply enjoy the attention he seemed to be lathering on her.

    The Boundaries of Temptation (2/5) amberfocus 2009

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