Etymology

piquerism

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Today it means: Sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors). Full definition →

French piquer
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The story

  1. French · derived frompiquer
  2. English todaypiquerism

From French piquer + -ism.

Words from the same roots

Frenchpiquer all →

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