fricatrice

English

Etymology

Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (“to rub”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/

Noun

fricatrice (plural fricatrices)

1. (obsolete) A lewd woman or prostitute.
   • 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 498:

     And am asham'd you' should ha' no more forehead
     Than thus to be the patron, or St. George,
     To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice,
     A female devil, in a male outside

2. (obsolete) A woman who masturbates.

See also

• tribade

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fricatrice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)