to touch oneself
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9.8
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
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masturbarse
- You know, buddy, it's perfectly normal for you to touch yourself...
- want to touch oneself
- never touch oneself
- like to touch oneself
Examples
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Now touch yourself.
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Many individuals discover their preferences when they touch oneself in private.
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Why don't you touch yourself?
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Are you touching yourself?
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I'm touching myself tonight.
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It's common for people to touch oneself to explore their own body.
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Sometimes, people might touch oneself as a way to relax and enjoy their own company.
Synonyms
98
7.7
Touch your own private parts for sexual pleasure
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9.1
To touch your own private parts to feel sexual pleasure
1
9.8
To touch your own sexual parts to feel pleasure
To touch your own sexual parts to feel pleasure at night
How Sexual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'touch' (make contact) combined with the reflexive 'oneself' yields the action of touching one's own body, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the basic sense. A specifically sexual interpretation depends on context and pragmatics, but the core meaning is transparent and follows a common reflexive construction cross-linguistically.
Etymology
The phrase touch oneself shows a simple, literal picture: touch, meaning use your hand, and oneself, meaning your own body, often the private parts. So, it means 'to touch your own private parts for pleasure', and people use it to talk politely about that private sexual action.