groom

Etymology 1
1604, short for, from , alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier , from , from +. In Middle English, the second element was re-analyzed as or influenced by,. derives from, from ; it is cognate to 🇨🇬 (cf. ) and 🇨🇬 and, ultimately,.

Noun

 * 1) A man who is about to marry.

Etymology 2
From, , of uncertain origin. Apparently related to 🇨🇬, Old 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, and also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from the same root. Possibly from, from , , from.

Alternative etymology describes Middle English grom, grome as an alteration of with an intrusive r (also found in, , , etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms.

Noun

 * 1) A person who looks after horses.
 * 2) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
 * 3)  A male servant, or more generally, a common man.
 * 4) A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
 * 1)  A male servant, or more generally, a common man.
 * 2) A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
 * 1) A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
 * 1) A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَائِس
 * Azerbaijani:, atabaxan, sayis
 * Bulgarian: коняр
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: podkoní
 * Danish: staldkarl
 * Esperanto: stalisto, ĉevalprizorganto, striglisto
 * Finnish: tallirenki
 * French:
 * Friulian: cjavalâr
 * Galician:
 * German:, , Hengstmann
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἱπποκόμος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: grúmaeir, giolla stábla
 * Italian:, ,
 * Korean: 말꾼,
 * Latin: agāsō, equīsō
 * Macedonian: коњушар
 * Old English: horshierde
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, palafrenero
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1) To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
 * 2)  To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.
 * 3)  To prepare (someone) for an event
 * 4) * 1912, The Contest for California in 1861: How Colonel E.D. Baker Saved the Pacific States to the Union, page 51
 * It appears that Broderick's seconds, although cool, brave men, were entirely without experience in arranging a duel, and did not know that a man should be groomed for one as carefully as a horse is groomed for a race.
 * 1)  To prepare (someone) for election or appointment.
 * 2) * 1953, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year page 146
 * It is of special interest to note the subjects considered as important to those who are being groomed for top administrative posts
 * 1) * 2002, Clone High episode 1 - "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand"
 * Our mission is to unfreeze those clones, send them back to high school, and secretly groom them to one day rule the world. Failure to do so could mean world leaders just keep getting worse.
 * 1) * 2009, Dani Johnson, Grooming the Next Generation for Success
 * 2) * 2023 in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" episode 5 "Deux Amours" regarding Laurent
 * Daryl "But he's gonna be safe? I'm afraid those nuns raised him a little -- a little soft." Losang "He'll be well looked after. Nurtured and groomed... to be the leader he's destined to be."
 * 1)  To attempt to gain the trust of a minor with the intention of luring them into a sexual relationship.
 * 2) * 2009, Suzanne Ost, Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses
 * 3)  In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.
 * 4)  To prepare (a ski slope) for skiers by packing down the snow.
 * 1)  To prepare (a ski slope) for skiers by packing down the snow.

Translations

 * Arabic: هَندَم
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, , , , Toilette machen, herausputzen
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: curare la propria persona, rendersi presentabile, curare il proprio aspetto, ,
 * Macedonian: се негува, се дотерува
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: سَاس
 * Bulgarian: тимаря,
 * Danish: pleje, strigle
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: περιποιούμαι ζώο
 * Italian: strigliare, fare la toilette
 * Macedonian: тимари, негува
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: røkte
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Finnish: groomata
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1)  in a stable
 * 2)  servant
 * 3) doorstop