grooming

Noun

 * 1) Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
 * 2)  The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.
 * 3) The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
 * 4) Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
 * 5) The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
 * 6)  In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.
 * 1)  In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.

Synonyms

 * currying
 * currying

Coordinate terms

 * – more basic level of care

Derived terms

 * allogrooming
 * autogrooming
 * cybergrooming
 * snow grooming

Translations

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: bee ídadołzhooní
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 * German: Pferdepflege, Tierpflege,, Viehputz
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 * Arabic: اِسْتِمَالَة الْأَطْفَال
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 性誘拐
 * Finnish: verkkoviettely,
 * German: sich vertraut machen
 * Hungarian: becserkészés, behálózás, bizalmába férkőzés, beetetés, beédesgetés, édesgetés
 * Portuguese: corrupção de menor
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kontakt med barn i sexuellt syfte