masturbation
Meanings
Plural: masturbations
Noun
- manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure
- Sexual stimulation of one's genitalia or other erotic regions, often to the point of orgasm.
- A vain activity.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French masturbation, New Latin masturbātiō, masturbātiōnem. By surface analysis, masturbat(e) + -ion.
Synonyms
celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, milking the sausage, onanism, peeling the cucumber, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, self-pollution, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, solitary vice, spanking the monkey, tossing off, wank
Scrabble Score: 16
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