grooming
grooh ming
- n activity leading to skilled behavior
- n the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
- v educate for a future role or function
He is grooming his son to become his successor - v give a neat appearance to
- v care for one's external appearance
- A study published in Animal Behavior found that male long-tailed macaques in Indonesia traded grooming services for sex with females.
- In fashion-forward Japan, male grooming is booming, so much so that Tokyo's popular Isetan department store devotes an entire sales floor to men's cosmetics.
- Scientists think female macaques may use grooming, too, to try to maintain social relationships within the group to benefit their offspring, or as a way to distract or appease .