lotion

Borrowed from Old French lotion, from Latin lotio, lotionem (“a washing”), from lavo (“to wash”); see lave.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊʃən/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊʃən/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃən

lotion (usually uncountable, plural lotions)

1. A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.
2. (archaic) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of beautification.

• lavatory

• lotional

• cream (generally a bit thicker than a lotion)

lotion (third-person singular simple present lotions, present participle lotioning, simple past and past participle lotioned)

1. (transitive) To cover or treat with a lotion.
   • 2005, Ryan Phillips, Fall from Grace (page 52)

     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.

   • 2011, Jeanne Starr Gater, Bring Back Summertime (page 89)

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

• lotion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lotion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• lootin'