piquerist

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noun

One with a sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounpiquerist (plural piquerists)

plural piquerists

  1. One with a sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).

    To classify him as a piquerist would be... too simplistic.

    2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon)
    2 more examples

    "The kind of person you want is a piquerist," he told me. […] "It's a pathological condition: it means the realization of sexual satisfaction from penetrating a victim by sniper activity. Or stab wounds, or even bites."

    1990, Andrew Vachss, Blossom, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, →OL

    Presumably the piquerist does not initially engage in mutual carving but begins with small stabs or piercings and eventually intensifies his/her acts to encompass carving for sexual gratification.

    2005 July 25, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, Pearson Education, →ISBN, →OL, page 242

Origin

  1. Frenchpiquer
  2. Englishpiquerist

From French piquer + -ist.

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APA

piquerist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piquerist

MLA

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Chicago

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