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vacuum cleaner

noun

Etymology

From vacuum + cleaner. By synchronic analysis, vacuum-clean (a back-formation) + -er.

  1. inherited from *klainizô✻ — “shinier, finer, more splendid”
  2. inherited from *klainiʀō✻ — “daintier, more delicate”
  3. inherited from clǣnra
  4. inherited from clener
  5. compounded as vacuum cleaner — “vacuum + cleaner”

Definitions

  1. A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris…

    A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.

  2. The buttocks.

    • And if that's not a good enough explanation, you can shove it up your vacuum cleaner and turn it on high!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vacuum cleaner. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA