mastupration

English

Etymology

An alteration of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

mastupration (countable and uncountable, plural mastuprations)

1. (now rare) Masturbation.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] 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.

Related terms

• mastuprate