mastupration
English edit
Etymology edit
An alteration of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mastupration (countable and uncountable, plural mastuprations)
- (now rare) Masturbation.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, I.iii.2.4:
- 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.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- 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.