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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English cleaning English self-cleaning From self- + cleaning.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Cleaning itself or requiring minimal cleaning effort.
After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.
The letters "SC" inscribed on the smokebox door of a locomotive denote that it is fitted with a self-cleaning smokebox.
1951 January, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Markings”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:A further disadvantage of the Crosti system is that it is impossible to fit a self-cleaning smokebox.
1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 422:
Translations (4)
fr autolavable (that cleans itself) · el αυτοκαθαριζόμενος (that cleans itself) · bg самопочистващ се (that cleans itself) · pl samoczyszczący (that cleans itself)