groom

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
groom/ɡruːm/

▶verb

• 1 brush and clean the coat of (a horse or dog).

  ■ (often as adj. groomed) give a neat and tidy appearance to.

• 2 prepare or train for a purpose or activity.

  ■ (of a paedophile) prepare (a child) for a meeting, especially via an Internet chat room, with the intention of committing a sexual offence.

▶noun

• 1 a person employed to take care of horses.

• 2 a bridegroom.

• 3 Brit. any of various officials of the royal household.

– derivatives
groomer noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘boy’, later ‘man, male servant’): of unknown origin.