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lotion

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈləʊʃən//
  • United States//ˈloʊʃən//

A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.

noun

  1. 1

    A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.

    sun-tan lotion

  2. 2

    archaicA washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of beautification.

Etymology

From Middle English locion, borrowed from Latin lōtiō, lōtiōnem (“a washing”), from lavō (“to wash”); see lave. Doublet of lavation.

verb

  1. 1

    To cover or treat with a lotion.

    Grace lotions her arms and legs and joins him in the large walk-in closet where they change out of their clothes and into their pajamas—loose-fitting cotton bottoms for Mike and a lace-trimmed baby doll nightie for Grace.

    I would finish my daily ranging session by lotioning his legs, and lotioning and rubbing his feet.

Forms

plural
lotions
past tense
lotioned
past participle
lotioned
present participle
lotioning
third person singular
lotions
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).