masseuse

masseuse

See also: Masseuse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /maˈsɜːz/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈsuːs/, /məˈsʊz/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɜːz, (US) -uːs, (US) -ʊz

Noun

masseuse (plural masseuses, masculine masseur)

1. A woman who performs massage; a female masseur.
   • Friends (TV series, episode 3.05)

     Oh! I'm a masseuse. I give people massages and stuff.

2. (nonstandard) A masseur; a man who performs massage.
   • 2003, Helena B. Rich.; L. C. S. W. Helena B. Rich, The Art of Masturdating: A Guidebook for Single Heterosexuals, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 103:

     He was a great masseuse.

   • 2012, Penny Dixon, Betrayed, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 57:

     He was a good masseuse, and could always make Jez relax.

   • 1998, Bad Subjects Production Team, Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, NYU Press, →ISBN:

     Waited, 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).

   • 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.

   • 2011, Mark D West, Lovesick Japan: Sex Marriage, Romance, Law - p.152

     In most massages, both the male masseuse and the female client are naked and the focus is on erogenous zones.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:massotherapist

Hypernyms

• massager

Coordinate terms

• masseur

Related terms

• massage
• masseur

Translations

a female masseur

Arabic: مُدَلِّكَة‎ f (mudallika) Belarusian: масажыстка f (masažystka) Bulgarian: масажистка f (masažistka) Catalan: massatgista f Czech: masérka (cs) f Danish: massøse c Dutch: masseuse (nl) f Esperanto: masaĝistino Finnish: hierojatar, hieroja (fi) French: masseuse (fr) f German: Masseurin (de) f Italian: massaggiatrice Lao: ຫມໍນວດ (mǭ nūat) Latin: tractātrīx f Macedonian: масерка f (maserka) Polish: masażystka (pl) f Portuguese: massagista (pt) f, massageadora f Romanian: maseză (ro) f Russian: массажи́стка (ru) f (massažístka) Spanish: masajista (es) f Swedish: massös (sv) c Volapük: jimasetan

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French masseuse, equivalent to masseren +‎ -euse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑˈsøː.zə/

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• Hyphenation: mas‧seu‧se
• Rhymes: -øːzə

Noun

masseuse f (plural masseuses, masculine masseur)

1. masseuse

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.søz/

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Noun

masseuse f (plural masseuses)

1. female equivalent of masseur (“masseuse”)

Descendants

• → Danish: massøse
• → Dutch: masseuse
• → English: masseuse

Further reading

• “masseuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.