clitorize

English

Etymology

clitoris +‎ -ize

Verb

clitorize (third-person singular simple present clitorizes, present participle clitorizing, simple past and past participle clitorized)

1. (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To sexually arouse by fondling the clitoris
   • 1996, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine: Roman medicine, page 760:

     Others call it hypodermis, others clitoris, and “to clitorize” [cleitoriazein] means the lascivious touching of this organ.

   • 2001, Harriette Andreadis, Sappho in Early Modern England, page 40:

     The Greeks call this member clitoris, from which the obscene word clitorize is derived.

   • 2004, Lauren E. Caldwell, The female transition to adulthood in the early Roman Empire, page 74:

     Some call it the hypodermis, others the clitoris, and say that lascivious touching of this part is to clitorize.

   • 2005, Reinhald Aman, Maledicta, volume 1, number 1, page 25:

     Firkytoodle, meaning 'to indulge in preliminary caresses,' among its synonyms 'to dildo, to clitorize,' is listed in Farmer and Henley's Slang and Its Analogues.

   • 2013, Elizabeth Grosz, Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism, page 39:

     Rufus has a verb, too, kleitoriaso, meaning “clitorize”, to touch the clitoris.