solitary vice
solitary vice noun: masturbation.
Noun
solitary vice (plural solitary vices)
- Masturbation.
- The vice consists in any excitement of the genital organs produced otherwise than in the natural way. It is known by the terms, self-pollution, self-abuse, masturbation, onanism, manustupration, voluntary pollution, solitary or secret vice, and other names sufficiently explanatory.[1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young
- Boys come to our school from many different classes of preparatory and secondary schools. Almost every such school seems to possess a few boys who delight to initiate younger boys into sexual knowledge, and usually into knowledge of solitary vice.1919, Mary Scharlieb, Frederick Arthur Sibly, Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys
Synonyms of solitary vice
- secret vice
- beat one's meat
- celebrating Palm Sunday
- choking the chicken
- ham shank
- hand shandy
- Hand Solo
- ipsation
- jacking off
- jerking off
21 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- lone rangering
- manustupration
- mastupration
- masturbation
- milking the sausage
- onanism
- peeling the cucumber
- pocket pool
- polishing the jewels
- romancing the bone
- self-abuse
- self-defilement
- self-love
- self-pleasure
- self-pollution
- shaking hands with the milkman
- shaking out the curtains
- solipsism
- spanking the monkey
- tossing off
- wank
Forms of solitary vice
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Questions about solitary vice
- What does solitary vice mean?
- Solitary vice means masturbation.
- What part of speech is solitary vice?
- Solitary vice is a noun.
- What is the plural of solitary vice?
- The plural of solitary vice is solitary vices.
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