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masturbator

noun

masturbator is a derogatory noun meaning “Someone who masturbates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-S-T-U-R-B-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of masturbator is masturbators.

What does masturbator mean?

noun

  1. 1

    derogatorySomeone who masturbates.

  2. 2

    A sex toy used to complement and help stimulate its user's erogenous zones during masturbation, and often designed to simulate an erotic body part (of an imaginary partner).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce masturbator?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-masturbator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of masturbator

  • masturbators plural
  • masturbater

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is masturbator?

Masturbator appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate masturbator?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of masturbator: bator.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Masturbator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense someone who masturbates:

LanguageWords
Frenchmasturbateur, masturbatrice, masturbant, masturbante
GermanOnanist, Onanistin, Wichser, Wichserin, Masturbierer, Masturbiererin
Portuguesemasturbador, masturbadora
Spanishmasturbador, masturbadora, onanista

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does masturbator come from?

From masturbate + -or.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).