massage

en-noun

massage (countable and uncountable, plural massages)

From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.

Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.

During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.

2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond:

The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.

ndrys

rubbing, kneading, or hitting muscled part of a body


masseur

You each get a regular massage by a naked masseur.

1978, Ted Bistroff, Massage Parlor Stud:

(massage) A person (especially male) who performs massage.

Masseuse

dated feminine form or sexual connotation


masseuse

Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.

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

A woman who performs massage; a female masseur.

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 103:

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

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

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).

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

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.

In 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:

(nonstandard) A masseur; a man who performs massage.


acupressure

acupressure (countable and uncountable, plural acupressures)

Blend of acupuncture + pressure. By surface analysis, acu- + pressure.

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(uncountable) An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.

指壓 /指压

alternative medicine technique in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints


shampoo

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)

→ Basque: xanpu

→ Catalan: xampú

⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)

→ Danish: shampoo

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→ Dutch: shampoo
→ Acehnese: sampô
→ Indonesian: sampo

→ Estonian: šampoon

→ Faroese: sjampo

→ Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo

→ French: shampooing, shampoing, champoing
→ Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
→ Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
→ Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
→ Armenian: շամպուն (šampun)
→ Azerbaijani: şampun
→ Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
→ Lithuanian: šampūnas
→ Romanian: șampon
→ Turkish: şampuan

→ Galician: xampú

→ German: Shampoo
→ Czech: šampón
→ Hungarian: sampon
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ша̀мпо̄н
Latin script: šàmpōn
→ Slovak: šampón

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→ Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ (shampó)

→ Hindi: शैंपू (śaimpū)

→ Icelandic: sjampó

→ Irish: seampú

→ Italian: shampoo, sciampo

→ Japanese: シャンプー (shanpū)

→ Korean: 샴푸 (syampu)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: sjampo

Nynorsk: sjampo

→ Portuguese: champô, xampu (Brazil), (unadapted form) shampoo

→ Hunsrik: Schampu

→ Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú

→ Swedish: schampo

→ Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)

→ Yiddish: שאַמפּו (shampu)

→ Zulu: ishampu

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.

(originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.


shampoo

en-verb

shampoo (third-person singular simple present shampoos, present participle shampooing, simple past and past participle shampooed)

shampoos (present singular third-person)
shampooing (participle present)
shampooed (participle past)
shampooed (past)

(transitive) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.


hacking

en-noun

hacking (usually uncountable, plural hackings)

From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack + -ing.

(massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.


shiatsu

Borrowed from Japanese 指(し)圧(あつ) (shiatsu), from Middle Chinese 指 (MC tsyijX, “finger”) + 壓 (MC 'aep, “downward force”).

A form of massage, using the thumbs and palms, employed as therapy.


massage parlour

massage parlour (plural massage parlours)

(British) Alternative spelling of massage parlor


massage parlor

A place that offers a happy ending (a hand job) after the massage; a front organization for a brothel.


hydromassage

en-verb

hydromassage (third-person singular simple present hydromassages, present participle hydromassaging, simple past and past participle hydromassaged)

hydromassages (present singular third-person)
hydromassaging (participle present)
hydromassaged (participle past)
hydromassaged (past)


body wrap

(massage) The practice of wrapping the recipient of a massage in something resembling cellophane as a beauty treatment.

(massage) The air-permeable wrapping material used in this process.


tapotement

en-noun

tapotement (countable and uncountable, plural tapotements)

(massage) A form of massage involving hitting the body with various parts of one's hand.


effleurage

effleurage (countable and uncountable, plural effleurages)

Borrowed from French effleurage, from effleurer (“to stroke lightly”).

When shampoo is spread on to the hair it is called an effleurage massage movement.

2003, Stephanie Henderson, Basic Hairdressing: A Coursebook for Level 2, →ISBN, page 97:

Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual:

(massage) A form of massage involving smooth strokes of the skin with one's hands.


effleurage

en-verb

effleurage (third-person singular simple present effleurages, present participle effleuraging, simple past and past participle effleuraged)

effleurages (present singular third-person)
effleuraging (participle present)
effleuraged (participle past)
effleuraged (past)

(massage) To gently stroke the skin in a circular motion with the palm of one's hands.


petrissage

(massage) A form of massage involving kneading or wringing the skin with one's fingers, knuckles and thumbs.


massotherapy

en-noun

massotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural massotherapies)


rub down

en-verb

rub down (third-person singular simple present rubs down, present participle rubbing down, simple past and past participle rubbed down)

rubs down (present singular third-person)
rubbing down (participle present)
rubbed down (participle past)
rubbed down (past)

We were taken to a light airy stable, and placed in boxes adjoining each other, where we were rubbed down and fed.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:

(idiomatic, transitive) To rub from top to bottom, e.g. for cleaning, stripping paint or massage.


backrub

AT what point in the chef-diner relationship is it O.K. to offer a backrub?

2008 March 12, Julia Moskin, “Your Waiter Tonight... Will Be the Chef”, in New York Times:


lomilomi

lomilomi (third-person singular simple present lomilomis, present participle lomilomiing, simple past and past participle lomilomied)

lomilomis (present singular third-person)
lomilomiing (participle present)
lomilomied (participle past)
lomilomied (past)

From Hawaiian lomilomi, reduplication of lomi (“to rub with the hand”).

During a church service at Kawaiaha‘o, she once walked to the rear of the church, lay on her back, and called a native Hawaiian boy of about eight years old over to her, commanding him to lomilomi her abdomen with his feet.

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 99:


rub up

rub up (third-person singular simple present rubs up, present participle rubbing up, simple past and past participle rubbed up)

rubs up (present singular third-person)
rubbing up (participle present)
rubbed up (participle past)
rubbed up (past)

[…] every Morning when you Comb your head, dip a sponge in this water and rub up your Hair, and it will keep it clean and preserve it,

1674, Hannah Woolley, A Supplement to The Queen-like Closet, London: Richard Lownds, page 9:

Bush’s handlers dragged him into his corner [of the boxing ring] and rubbed him up, not working very hard at it.

1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 9, in Red Harvest, New York, N.Y.: Knopf:

(transitive) To rub (a body part): to massage, give a massage to.


rub-up

The act of bringing old information to the front of one's memory.


tripsis

From New Latin trīpsis, from Ancient Greek τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing, friction”), from τρῑ́βω (trī́bō, “I rub”).

der

(medicine, archaic) shampoo (a kind of body massage)


massage therapist

en-noun

massage therapist (plural massage therapists)


abhyanga

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अभ्यङ्ग (abhyaṅga).

lbor

A form of Ayurvedic medicine that involves massage of the body with warm oil.


rub and tug

Do you wanna hit a rub and tug? I gotta shed some nerves.

2007, “The Resurrection”, in Entourage, season 3, episode 18, spoken by Johnny Drama, via HBO:

Between going to the naked ballets and the rub and tugs, it was pretty solid for a while. And for those who don't believe in the spiritual connection in physical relationships, you are totally wrong!

2014, Peter Sacco, Debra Laino, Breast Envy:

(slang) A massage parlor where one can get a massage with a hand job.


footrub

While you may think that editors have nothing to do but torture writers while they kick back and get footrubs, the reverse is often true.

2003, Linda Formichelli, Diana Burrell, The Renegade Writer:


massage table

A table used by massage therapists to position the client to receive a massage.


massage chair

A chair designed so that a massage therapist can easily access the head, shoulders, and back of the seated person.

A chair fitted with electronic vibrators and motors to provide a massage.


milking table

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(colloquial) A type of massage table containing an extra hole for the penis, so a man can be masturbated or fellated from below.


lingam massage

en-noun

lingam massage (countable and uncountable, plural lingam massages)

Coordinate term: yoni massage

Orgasm is not the only goal of the Lingam massage, although it can be a pleasant and welcome side effect. The goal is to raise you into a highly receptive state; a state of peak feelings, aided by studied mental perceptions, enabled by a fit body capable of aerobic exertion, leading to hours of sexual lust.

2012, Shido of Sukhavati, The Art and Science of Dating, page 109:

A tantric massage mainly focusing on the male genitalia.