Bukkake adalah bentuk kata benda dari kata kerja [[bahasa Jepang]] ''bukkakeru'' ('''ぶっ掛ける''', menyemprotkan atau memercikkan air).<ref>[http://www.seekjapan.jp/article-1/744/The+(Almost)+Complete+Japanzine+Dictionary+of+Japan+Sex The (Almost) Complete Japanzine Dictionary of Japan Sex], Jon Wilks, [[Japanzine]]</ref> Dapat pula diterjemahkan menjadi "menyemprotkan", "memercikkan", atau "menyemburkan (air)".<ref name=Routledge>{{citebook|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|author=Tom Dalzell|year=2008|url=http://books.google.com/?id=5F-YNZRv-VMC|isbn=0415371821|page=138}}</ref><ref name="Baker2004">{{citebook|author=Paul Baker|title=Fantabulosa: The Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=T72TJfZoywAC|accessdate=17 February 2011|date=29 April 2004|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|page=90|quote=While the original bukkake films featured Japanese women, the term has crossed over into gay pornography.|isbn=9780826473431}}</ref><ref name="Boyle201077">{{cite book|author1=Lisa Jean Moore|author2=Juliana Weissbein|editor=Karen Boyle|title=Everyday Pornography|chapter=Cocktail parties: fetishizing semen in pornography beyond bukkake|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8yznvRX-hfAC&pg=PA77|accessdate=23 July 2011|date=27 August 2010|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415543781|page=77}}</ref>
</ref><ref name=partridge>{{cite book|title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|author=Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor|year=2006|url=http://books.google.com/?id=4YfsEgHLjboC|isbn=0415259371|pages=288}}</ref><ref name=Routledge>{{cite book|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|author=Tom Dalzell|year=2008|url=http://books.google.com/?id=5F-YNZRv-VMC|isbn=0415371821|page=138}}</ref><ref name=alba /><ref name="Baker2004">{{cite book|author=Paul Baker|title=Fantabulosa: The Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=T72TJfZoywAC|accessdate=17 February 2011|date=29 April 2004|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|page=90|quote=While the original bukkake films featured Japanese women, the term has crossed over into gay pornography.|isbn=9780826473431}}</ref><ref name="Kick2005">{{cite book|author=Russ Kick|title=Everything you know about sex is wrong: the Disinformation guide to the extremes of human sexuality (and everything in between) / edited by Russ Kick|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ykub_n3euTsC&pg=PA98|accessdate=18 February 2011|date=1 October 2005|publisher=The Disinformation Company|isbn=9781932857177|quote=... bukkake porn, in which many men come on camera, masturbating onto the face or body of a woman or another man.|page=98}}</ref>
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