ejaculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈdʒæk.jʊ.leɪt/
enpr: ĭjăʹkyəlāt
ipa: /ɪˈd͡ʒæk.jə.leɪt/
Forms: form: ejaculates
form: ejaculating
form: ejaculated
form: ejaculated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēiaculātus, perfect active participle of ēiaculor (“to hurl, shoot out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from ē (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaciō (“to throw, to hurl”).
Senses: examples: text: The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ſtrong, tho' ſubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.
ref: 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, OCLC 731619916; 5th edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame's-street, 1727, OCLC 728300884, page 7
synonyms: eject
throw out
glosses: To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
examples: text: Vigors almost bounded on the pavement at the mention of the name; and he ejaculated, "It is he of whom I am in search ! But why do you ask? Is it possible that—"
ref: 1857, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, The Empress Eugenie's Boudoir, London: Published, for the proprietor, by John Dicks, No. 7, Wellington Street North, Strand, page 52:
text: Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses. "Aiyah!" she ejaculated.
ref: 1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC:
text: —Half a crown, Stephen responded. I daresay he needs it to sleep somewhere.
—Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated, professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: "We're not going to use magic?" Ron ejaculated loudly.
ref: 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
synonyms: blurt out
glosses: To say abruptly.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
examples: text: Men can ejaculate between 0.1 and 10 milliliters of semen on average.
text: With a groan, he ejaculated on his abdomen.
text: [I]n controlled studies some men have been observed to ejaculate but not have orgasm or have orgasm but are unable to ejaculate.
ref: 1994, Vern L. Bullough with Bonnie Bullough, Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia [Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 685], New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, page 180:
text: The knowledge that some women ejaculate at the moment of orgasm was, like many other important aspects of sexuality, buried by Puritanism and patriarchy.
ref: 2003, Deborah Sundahl, “Foreword”, in Female Ejaculation and the G-spot, Alameda, Calif.: Hunter House Publishers, →ISBN, page ix:
text: However, it would be highly useful if the ejaculated spermatozoa could be successfully cryopreserved and the frozen-thawed spermatozoa used for in vitro fertilization, since this would allow the genetically valuable rats to be maintained alive rather than sacrificed.
ref: 2012, Q. Ashton Acton, editor, Germ Cells – Advances in Research and Application, Atlanta, Ga.: ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Bulls, rams and boars have the biggest testes among the larger domestic animals, so they would be expected to produce and ejaculate more sperms than others with smaller testes.
ref: 2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Rather, these men prefer an erotic exhibition – an uninhibited display of ejaculating semen onto themselves or someone else.
ref: 2012, Trudy Rudge, Dave Holmes, editors, Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, pages 90–91:
glosses: Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
examples: text: Porn teaches men that sex is a completely selfish act, where the other party has no humanity, she only exists to ejaculate him. The only pleasure she has is in pleasuring him.
ref: 1997 February 4, NoDoubt, “Women and Porn”, in soc.feminism (Usenet):
glosses: To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
Synonyms: word: blow one's load
word: blow one's wad
word: blow a nut
word: breed
word: bust
word: bust a nut
word: come
word: cream
word: cum
word: ejaculate
word: explode
word: get off
word: go off
word: jizz
word: juice
word: nut
word: pop
word: shoot a rope
word: shoot off
word: shoot one's load
word: shoot one's wad
word: skeet
word: spray one's shorts
word: sprog
word: spoof
word: splooge
word: spooge
word: spunk
word: spurt
Coordinate terms: word: flood
word: squirt
Derived terms: ejaculate and evacuate
ejaculative
electroejaculate
interjaculate
unejaculated
Related terms: word: ejaculation
word: ejaculator
word: ejaculatory
word: eject
word: ejection
word: masturbate
word: semen