Thesaurus fail, but I believe in you HBT!

[Crazytwoknobs]

Haven't been looking *too* long, but I can't find any other words for "Masturbatory". I even tried translating it into French and a few other languages, doesn't work.

It's for an art project, I'd like the title to mean "Masturbatory", but not actually say it.

 

[weirdboy]

self-satisfying?

also:
narcissistic
vain
smug
egotistical

oh yeah and pompous

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Anyone with an oed subscription or still in college to use their free access?

I would add,

repetitive
mind-numbing
self-serving
superfluous

 

[Crazytwoknobs]

Thanks, I think I'll go with

"l'auto-gratifiant"

 

[Crazytwoknobs]

You guys rock, btw.

 

[Revvy]

onanistic........

http://www.allwords.com/word-onanistic.html

 

[weirdboy]

oooh onanistic is a good one.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

onanistic........

http://www.allwords.com/word-onanistic.html

Awesome word! I need to remember that one.

 

[Revvy]

It's just a tad "unknown" enough to be used as a covert insult, which may have a delayed reaction, usually after the person it is referring to, actually looks it up in a dictionary.

For example, "Hey Steven King, writing yourself into the last half of the Dark Tower series, has to be one of your most onanistic moves yet."

 

[ChshreCat]

Dang, ya beat me to it Revvy. But then you'd have an advantage over me to knowing that.




No, I didn't mean THAT way!

 

[arturo7]

Word of the day.

 

[Dwain]

So, I guess since it's an adjective, you can't sit there onanisting, you just have to sit there with an onanistic smile on your face. - Dwain

 

[Palefire]

Damn, saw the title of the thread and thought of "onanistic" immediately ... got beat by lots of peeps.

Guess I gotta keep looking for opportunities to put this humanities PhD to use...

 

[ChshreCat]

I don't have a PhD... I just have lots of experience with... ummm... I mean, I have a large vocabulary.

 

[northernlad]

For example, "Hey Steven King, writing yourself into the last half of the Dark Tower series, has to be one of your most onanistic moves yet."

Why wouldn't he? It was the last book he ever wrote.
Oh,wait...

 

[Palefire]

I don't have a PhD... I just have lots of experience with... ummm... I mean, I have a large vocabulary.

Oh, believe me - I've spent a lot of time wondering if getting the PhD is really just another version of ... well, you can probably guess.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Autoerotica?

D-I-Y ? ? ?

 

[methane]

Onanistic was my initial thought for this thread too. Added benefit, it's named for a biblical character... Onan. And god killed him for it. So, there you go.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Well now this thread has devolved into one huge fawking circle jerk.