Meanings
plural masseuses
- nonstandardA masseur; a man who performs massage.
year unknown, Jamie Lake, BOOK 4 - Bad Boy: Naughty at Night: Bad Boy | Gay Romance MM Boyfriend Series, Jamie Lake Just less than a week ago, he'd said he'd tell Peter's parents, his school, the press, that Peter was an erotic masseuse.
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He was a great masseuse.
2003, Helena B. Rich., L. C. S. W. Helena B. Rich, The Art of Masturdating: A Guidebook for Single Heterosexuals, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 103He was a good masseuse, and could always make Jez relax.
2012, Penny Dixon, Betrayed, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 57Waited, got up, opened the door and saw the masseuse playing backgammon. Told him I was ready, didn't know what for. He waved me away, and I returned to the slab. By the time he came in, a mustached masseuse was sponging down a German woman on the opposite side of the marble; her husband sat on the perimeter watching (this was not a traditional hamam).
1998, Bad Subjects Production Team, Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, NYU Press, →ISBNIn most massages, both the male masseuse and the female client are naked and the focus is on erogenous zones.
2011, Mark D West, Lovesick Japan: Sex Marriage, Romance, Law, page 152
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchmasseuse
- Englishmasseuse
Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُدَلِّكَة
- مُدَلِّكَة (mudallika)female masseur
Bulgarian масажистка
- масажистка (masažistka)female masseur
Catalan massatgista
- massatgistafemale masseur
Czech masérka
- masérkafemale masseur
Danish massøse
- massøsefemale masseur
Dutch masseuse
- masseusefemale masseur
Esperanto masaĝistino
- masaĝistinofemale masseur
Finnish hierojatar, hieroja
- hierojatarfemale masseur
- hierojafemale masseur
French masseuse
- masseusefemale masseur
German Masseurin, Masseuse
- Masseurinfemale masseur
- Masseusefemale masseur
Hungarian masszőz
- masszőzfemale masseur
Italian massaggiatrice
- massaggiatricefemale masseur
Latin tractātrīx, ūnctrīx
- tractātrīxfemale masseur
- ūnctrīxfemale masseur
Norwegian Bokmål massøse
- massøsefemale masseur
Polish masażystka
- masażystkafemale masseur
Portuguese massagista, massageadora
- massagistafemale masseur
- massageadorafemale masseur
- massajadorafemale masseur
Romanian maseză
- masezăfemale masseur
Russian массажи́стка
- массажи́стка (massažístka)female masseur
Spanish masajista
- masajistafemale masseur
Swedish massös
- massösfemale masseur
Ukrainian масажистка
- масажистка (masažystka)female masseur
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with masseuse
All rhymes →Cite this entry
masseuse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/masseuse
“masseuse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/masseuse. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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