mastupration

noun
/mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

An alternate form of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”). Some theorists disagree, saying that this is the original word and that masturbate is the derivative.

Definitions

  1. Masturbation.

    • it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars.
    • She had caught him at the age of twelve in the act of mastupration. Unseemly, unroman, Greekish, Jewish. Well, in a sense he had done nothing but mastuprate since taking the purple.

The neighborhood

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