English
Etymology
An alteration of Latin masturbat- (past participle stem of masturbari �masturbate�) apparently to resemble or provide overtones of manus �hand� + stuprare �defile�.
Pronunciation
IPA: /mæst�'pɹeɪ��n/
Noun
mastupration
- masturbation
#:*1985: 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. � Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
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