knifeplay
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English
Etymology
Noun
knifeplay (uncountable)
- The act of fighting or cutting with a knife.
- 1981, Thomas Berger, Reinhart's Women, Open Road, published 2013, →ISBN:
- Reinhart had finished his neat knifeplay, having transformed a half-pound of slab bacon into an accumulation of little strips measuring half an inch by an inch and a half.
- 2013, Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Knopf, →ISBN:
- After a tense confrontation that almost lead to knifeplay, Lawrence recounted, "Mohammed Said and Abd el Kader then went away, breaking vengeance against me as a Christian."
- (BDSM) A sexual practice involving the use of knives, daggers, or swords for physical and mental stimulation.
- 2009, Quince Mountain, “Cowboy for Christ”, in Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau, editors, Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 116:
- When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]
- 2009, Erastes, Transgressions, Running Press, →ISBN, page 318:
- Michael's knifeplay had never aroused him, but that fact had never concerned Jonathan, for Michael had never insisted upon it.
- 2014, D. L. King, She Who Must Be Obeyed, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 106:
- Partly because I loved milder forms of knifeplay but had never taken it as far as I'd fantasized, but mostly because of her.
Translations
act of fighting or cutting with a knife
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