Meanings
present singular third person clitorizes · participle present clitorizing · participle past clitorized · past clitorized
- nonstandardraretransitiveTo sexually arouse by fondling the clitoris
Rufus has a verb, too, kleitoriaso, meaning “clitorize”, to touch the clitoris.
2013, Elizabeth Grosz, Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism, page 394 more examples
Others call it hypodermis, others clitoris, and “to clitorize” [cleitoriazein] means the lascivious touching of this organ.
1996, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine: Roman medicine, page 760The Greeks call this member clitoris, from which the obscene word clitorize is derived.
2001, Harriette Andreadis, Sappho in Early Modern England, page 40Some call it the hypodermis, others the clitoris, and say that lascivious touching of this part is to clitorize.
2004, Lauren E. Caldwell, The female transition to adulthood in the early Roman Empire, page 74Firkytoodle, meaning 'to indulge in preliminary caresses,' among its synonyms 'to dildo, to clitorize,' is listed in Farmer and Henley's Slang and Its Analogues.
2005, Reinhald Aman, Maledicta, volume 1, number 1, page 25
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