masseuse

See also: Masseuse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /maˈsɜːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈsuːs/, /məˈsʊz/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɜːz, (US) -uːs, (US) -ʊz

Noun

masseuse (plural masseuses)

1. A woman who performs massage; a female masseur.
   • Friends (TV series, episode 3.05)

     Oh! I'm a masseuse. I give people massages and stuff.

2. (nonstandard) A masseur; a man who performs massage.
   • 2003, Helena B. Rich., L. C. S. W. Helena B. Rich, The Art of Masturdating: A Guidebook for Single Heterosexuals, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 103:

     He was a great masseuse.

   • 2012, Penny Dixon, Betrayed, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 57:

     He was a good masseuse, and could always make Jez relax.

   • 1998, Bad Subjects Production Team, Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, NYU Press, →ISBN:

     Waited, got up, opened the door and saw the masseuse playing backgammon. Told him I was ready, didn't know what for. He waved me away, and I returned to the slab. By the time he came in, a mustached masseuse was sponging down a German woman on the opposite side of the marble; her husband sat on the perimeter watching (this was not a traditional hamam).

   • year unknown, Jamie Lake, BOOK 4 - Bad Boy: Naughty at Night: Bad Boy | Gay Romance MM Boyfriend Series, Jamie Lake

     Just less than a week ago, he'd said he'd tell Peter's parents, his school, the press, that Peter was an erotic masseuse.

   • 2011, Mark D West, Lovesick Japan: Sex Marriage, Romance, Law, page 152:

     In most massages, both the male masseuse and the female client are naked and the focus is on erogenous zones.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:massotherapist

Hypernyms

• massager

Coordinate terms

• masseur

Related terms

• massage
• masseur

Translations

female masseur

• Arabic: مُدَلِّكَة f (mudallika)
• Belarusian: масажыстка f (masažystka)
• Bulgarian: масажистка f (masažistka)
• Catalan: massatgista f
• Czech: masérka (cs) f
• Danish: massøse c (rare)
• Dutch: masseuse (nl) f
• Esperanto: masaĝistino
• Finnish: hierojatar, hieroja (fi)
• French: masseuse (fr) f
• German: Masseurin (de) f, Masseuse (de) f (dated feminine form or sexual connotation)
• Hungarian: masszőz (hu)
• Italian: massaggiatrice f
• Lao: ຫມໍນວດ (mǭ nūat)
• Latin: tractātrīx f, ūnctrīx f
• Macedonian: ма́серка f (máserka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: massøse m or f (older term)

  Nynorsk: massøse f (older term)

• Polish: masażystka (pl) f
• Portuguese: massagista (pt) f, massageadora f, massajadora f
• Romanian: maseză (ro) f
• Russian: массажи́стка (ru) f (massažístka)
• Spanish: masajista (es) f
• Swedish: massös (sv) c
• Ukrainian: масажистка f (masažystka)
• Volapük: jimasetan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French masseuse, equivalent to masseren +‎ -euse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑˈsøː.zə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mas‧seu‧se
• Rhymes: -øːzə

Noun

masseuse f (plural masseuses, masculine masseur)

1. masseuse

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.søz/

• Audio:

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Noun

masseuse f (plural masseuses)

1. female equivalent of masseur (“masseuse”)

Descendants

• → Danish: massøse
• → English: masseuse
• → German: Masseuse
• → Dutch: masseuse
• → Norwegian Bokmål: massøse
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: massøse
• → Romanian: maseuză
• → Swedish: massös

Further reading

• “masseuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.