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Definition: Self-abuse |
Self-abuseNoun1. Manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-abuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-abuseSynonyms: masturbation (n), onanism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sexuality | Masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self-abuse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | On the self-abuse front -- and this is important -- I don't think it's advisable to do it in the shower. (The Ice Storm; writing credit: Rick Moody; James Schamus) | |
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| "Self-abuse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Self-abuse" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-abuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 自我责备. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-abusesay การตำหนิตัวเอง. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-l-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sublease. | |
-2 letters: befleas, easeful, subsale, useable. | |
-3 letters: abeles, abuses, beflea, easels, fables, feases, fusees, fusels, leases, sables, suable, subsea, sulfas, usable. | |
-4 letters: abele, ables, abuse, alefs, bales, bases, beaus, beefs, blase, bless, blues, buses, easel, eases, fable, false, fease, feels, fesse, flabs, fleas, flees, flubs, flues, fuels, fusee, fusel, fuses, lases, leafs, lease, lubes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-f-l-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: balefulness. | |
+4 letters: balefulnesses, bashfulnesses, beautifulness. | |
+5 letters: boastfulnesses, fabulousnesses, sufferableness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 61 62 75 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100001 01100010 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - a b u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0061 0062 0075 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53717872156768878571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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