ejaculation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /iˌdʒækjuˈleɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From French éjaculation, borrowed from Latin ēiaculārī.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.
1910 June 20, Gilman A. Drew, “Sexual Activities of the Squid, Loligo pealii (Les.). I. Copulation, Egg-laying and Fertilization”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 22, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, published 1911, page 334:Dehiscence, or Ejaculation of Pollen or Seed.— The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.
1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms …, London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 210:
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(countable, specifically, uncountable) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure. ▸ A reflex in human beings and other mammals in response to sexual stimulation involving the forcible ejection from the urethra of, in males, semen; and, in females, vaginal fluid.
Biologically described as the release of seminal fluid from the penis during the male sexual response cycle, male ejaculation is entangled with cultural beliefs about male sexual prowess and masculine authenticity. […] Due to the sexual, cultural, and personal significance of ejaculation, men and boys are vulnerable to prevalent messages about the timing, size, and frequency of their ejaculation. Ejaculation can be a visual representation of the measure of the man.
2014, Lisa Jean Moore, “Ejaculation (Male)”, in Michael Kimmel, Christine Milrod, Amanda Kennedy, editors, Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 55:The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.
1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms …, London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 191:By repeating this process several times before ejaculation and by practicing this procedure, the man will learn to control his ejaculation.
1995, Louis Diamant, Richard D. McAnulty, editors, The Psychology of Sexual Orientation, Behavior, and Identity: A Handbook, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 190:One of the most challenging of male sexual disorders is that of delayed ejaculation (DE). The man who cannot readily ejaculate either alone or, most typically, with a partner, feels thwarted, anxious, and sexually incompetent.
2006, Sandra R. Leiblum, editor, Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 241:In all my life I had never seen a woman discharge like that. Not only did she shoot out fuck like a man, but she accompanied her ejaculation with such furious cries, such energetic blasphemy, and such violent spasms, that one would have thought she was having an epileptic fit […] [Translation of the Marquis de Sade's Histoire de Juliette, IX:428.]
2001, Peter [Maxwell] Cryle, “Producing the Voice in Erotic Narrative”, in Brian Nelson, Anne Freadman, Philip Anderson, editors, Telling Performances: Essays on Gender, Narrative, and Performance, Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 117:
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
Thus far, we have given a general account of [Nicolas le Fèvre]'s theory. Further elaboration is to be found in his account of the generation of metals. Here it is suggested that it is light "which by its ejaculation and irradiation did imprint and stamp the Idea and Character of its vertue in water as in a general and convenient Matrix, to enable her afterwards to supply both matter and Form, Body and Spirit, Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, [and] all physical generations...".
1974, D. R. Oldroyd, “Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic Influences on Mineralogy in the 16th and 17th Centuries”, in Allen G. Debus, editor, Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers from Ambix, [London]: Jeremy Mills Publishing for The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, published 2004, →ISBN, page 238:
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(countable, dated, uncountable) The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
They say no graces; but when their meal is on the table, they sit silent and in a thoughtful posture for a short time, waiting for an illapſe of the Spirit. If they are not moved to make any ejaculation, they begin to eat without more ado.
1807 April, Francis Jeffrey, “A Portraiture of Quakerism, as Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Economy, and Character, of the Society of Friends. By Thomas Clarkson, M.A. Author of several Essays on the subject of the Slave Trade. 8vo. 3 vols. London: 1806 [book review]”, in Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. … In Three Volumes, 2nd edition, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1846, →OCLC, pages 385–386:She gaped at us dumbly for perhaps five seconds, then uttered an ejaculation, far from suitable to mixed company, which she had no doubt picked up from fellow-Nimrods in her hunting days.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:[T]hey entered, and drove slowly towards the village; leaving her with hands clasped and uplifted, as in the act of reiterating her fervent ejaculation for their happiness. Nor was her ejaculation wholly breathed in vain: of their felicity, however, suffice it to record, that blessed with a numerous progeny, Emily found herself completely embosomed in domestic bliss: […]
1826, William Child Green, The Woodland Family, or The Sons of Error and Daughters of Simplicity, A Domestic Tale, London: J. M'Gowan and Sons, →OCLC, page 556:
Forms
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| ejaculations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
premature ejaculation · ejaculation praecox · retrograde ejaculation · anejaculation · delayed ejaculation · intravaginal ejaculation latency time · dysejaculation · female ejaculation · electroejaculation
Hyponyms
nocturnal emission · night emission · pollution · premature ejaculation · wet dream
Relateds
ejaculate · ejection · eject · ejaculatory · ejaculator
Synonyms
unloading · busting a nut · nutting · spewing · jizzing · skeet · exploding · creaming · splooge · blowing a load · cumming · busting · ejaculation
Translations (95)
az boşalma (ejection of semen through the urethra) · gl exaculación (ejection of semen through the urethra) · yue 射精 (ejection of semen through the urethra) · nb ejakulasjon (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ca ejaculació (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sv ejakulation (ejection of semen through the urethra) · uk сім'явипо́рскування (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ko 사정 (ejection of semen through the urethra) · az toxum axıtma (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sh ејакула́ција (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sq ejakulacion (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ga seadadh (ejection of semen through the urethra) · tr boşalma (ejection of semen through the urethra) · bg еякула́ция (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ms ejakulasi (ejection of semen through the urethra) · lb Ejakulatioun (ejection of semen through the urethra) · bn বীর্যস্খলন (ejection of semen through the urethra) · cs ejakulace (ejection of semen through the urethra) · mt ejakulazzjoni (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ka ეაკულაცია (ejection of semen through the urethra) · de Samenerguss (ejection of semen through the urethra) · fr éjaculation (ejection of semen through the urethra) · cmn 射精 (ejection of semen through the urethra) · cmn 射出 (ejection of semen through the urethra) · hy սերմնաժայթքում (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ia ejaculation (ejection of semen through the urethra) · lv ejakulācija (ejection of semen through the urethra) · vi phóng tinh (ejection of semen through the urethra) · pl ejakulacja (ejection of semen through the urethra) · mr स्खलन (ejection of semen through the urethra) · la patrātiō (ejection of semen through the urethra) · lt ejakuliacija (ejection of semen through the urethra) · da ejakulation (ejection of semen through the urethra) · el εκσπερμάτιση (ejection of semen through the urethra) · hu ejakuláció (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ro ejaculație (ejection of semen through the urethra) · be семявывяржэ́нне (ejection of semen through the urethra) · te స్ఖలనము (ejection of semen through the urethra) · he שְׁפִיכָה (ejection of semen through the urethra) · tr ejakülasyon (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ast eyaculación (ejection of semen through the urethra) · hi वीर्यपात (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ar قَذْف (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sa रेतःस्खलन (ejection of semen through the urethra) · pt ejaculação (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ru эякуля́ция (ejection of semen through the urethra) · kmr avêtin (ejection of semen through the urethra) · nl ejaculatie (ejection of semen through the urethra) · mt eġakulazzjoni (ejection of semen through the urethra) · vi xuất tinh (ejection of semen through the urethra) · uk еякуля́ція (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ja 射精 (ejection of semen through the urethra) · an echaculación (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sv utlösning (ejection of semen through the urethra) · is sáðlát (ejection of semen through the urethra) · kk шәуеттің шығуы (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ka თესლდანთხევა (ejection of semen through the urethra) · be эякуля́цыя (ejection of semen through the urethra) · eu isurtze (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sl ejakulácija (ejection of semen through the urethra) · fi siemensyöksy (ejection of semen through the urethra) · kk ұрық шашу (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ml സ്ഖലനം (ejection of semen through the urethra) · da udløsning (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ru семяизверже́ние (ejection of semen through the urethra) · hi स्खलन (ejection of semen through the urethra) · fi ejakulaatio (ejection of semen through the urethra) · es eyaculación (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ms pemancutan (ejection of semen through the urethra) · uk сім'явиве́рження (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ka თესლის გადმონთხევა (ejection of semen through the urethra) · th การหลั่ง (ejection of semen through the urethra) · id ejakulasi (ngecrot) (ejection of semen through the urethra) · enm schot (ejection of semen through the urethra) · th การหลั่งน้ำกาม (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sk ejakulácia (ejection of semen through the urethra) · mk ејакулација (ejection of semen through the urethra) · kk шәует шығару (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ru семяизлия́ние (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sh ejakulácija (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ur سکھلن (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ak ahobaa (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ta விந்து தள்ளல் (ejection of semen through the urethra) · th การหลั่งน้ำอสุจิ (ejection of semen through the urethra) · it eiaculazione (ejection of semen through the urethra) · sv sädesuttömning (ejection of semen through the urethra) · de Ejakulation (ejection of semen through the urethra) · fa-ira اِنْزال (ejection of semen through the urethra) · az sperma axıtma (ejection of semen through the urethra) · pl wytrysk (ejection of semen through the urethra) · hu magömlés (ejection of semen through the urethra) · eo ejakulo (ejection of semen through the urethra) · bn বীর্যপাত (ejection of semen through the urethra) · hi वीर्य स्खलन (ejection of semen through the urethra) · ro ejaculare (ejection of semen through the urethra)