homosexuality

en-noun

homosexuality (usually uncountable, plural homosexualities)

/ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)sɛkʃʊˈælɪti/

From homosexual + -ity, equivalent to homo- + sexuality and after the model of German Homosexualität, coined by journalist Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869, and French homosexualité, attested in 1891.

Great diminution or complete absence of sexual feeling for the opposite sex, with substitution of sexual feeling and instinct for the same sex. (Homo-sexuality, or contrary sexual instinct).

1892, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, translated by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, Psychopathia Sexualis, page 185:

Some of the experts have gone into the question of homosexuality with great care, and advanced sundry learned and scientific theories in regard to that abnormal condition.

1892 April 2, “Hereditary Insanity: This is What Dr. Comstock Says Alice Mitchell Has”, in Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, Memphis, Tenn., page 1:

Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web. "There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites." He was a foreigner, an Englishman, in the long tradition of blaming homosexuality on the influence of aliens. Among the syndicate of perverts, the writer announced, "we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English called homosexuality the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip it was the French and English vice).

2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:

The state of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex attraction between males.

Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.

1897, Havelock Ellis et al., Sexual Inversion, page 101:

A Prussian proposal for a harsh penal code made male homosexuality an even more serious crime.

2004 June 10, Leslie Feinberg, “The love that dared to speak its name”, in Workers World:

Third, it is possible to have gay sex with a crew member on your team. This isn’t possible with every crew member—only some, according to their pre-programmed sexual orientation. It’s obvious why this is an issue for Christians. Scripture explicitly says homosexuality is a sin (Genesis 18:20-21; 19:4-5, 24-25; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 2 Peter 2:4-10). Denying what Scripture says on it is nothing short of joyful ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.
Society, conversely, says it’s not a sin, and as such has thrown it into pop culture without a care for whom they offend. Obviously, for the Christian, do not go this route. If you believe homosexuality is a sin (and you should, considering God’s Word is inerrant and infallible and you say you’re a Christian), do not choose a gay romantic route. You may think it’s harmless if you do, but what’s the point in making a confession coherent with Scripture but not living according to that confession? Quite frankly, it’s hypocritical and needs repentance.

2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 2020-09-17, Blog:

Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males.


bi-

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin bi-, from Proto-Italic *dwi-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwi-. Doublet of twi- and di-.

noun (m. sg.) + בן שתי + noun (f. pl.) (e.g. בניין בן שתי קומות, "a two-story building")

noun (m. sg.) + בן שתי + noun (m. pl.) (e.g. ספר בן שני חלקים, "a two-part book")

noun (f. sg.) + בת שתי + noun (f. pl.) (e.g. קואליציה בת שתי מפלגות, "a two-party coalition")

noun (f. sg.) + בת שני + noun (m. pl.) (e.g. מערכת בת שני גופים, "a two-body system")

གཉིས་ལྡན (gnyis ldan, literally “having two”)

ཟུང་ལྡན (zung ldan, literally “having a pair”)

གཉིས་མ (gnyis ma, literally “both, double”)

གཉིས་རེ (gnyis re, literally “every two”)

ལྡབ་གཉིས (ldab gnyis, literally “twice”)

bicentric is having a bisexual bias or basis, biphobia is antipathy towards bisexuals, biromantic is romantically attracted to both males and females

(LGBTQ) Bisexual, relating to bisexuality.


poly

Coordinate term: mono

Whether the family is poly, L.G.B.T.Q. or another minority, such as a religious one, coming out is very much a personal decision.

2020 August 4, Cynthia McKelvey, “The Challenges of Polyamorous Parenting”, in The New York Times:


knot

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
* (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.

In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.

(aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.


hetero-

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From Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”).

bor

heterocentric is having a heterosexual bias or basis, heteroamorous is characterized by love with another of the opposite sex; heteroromantic, heterofemale is a woman who is heterosexual

allo-

sometimes synonymous; differentiated in transplantation sense, intraspecies versus interspecies


hooker

In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]

1884, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races, page 161:

[T]he poor Flash is gone, and there is an end of it. Poor old hooker. Hey, Almayer? You made a voyage or two with me. Wasn’t she a sweet craft?

1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part III, pages 182–183:

[…] for there was scarce one of us that thought the old hooker would weather so long and hard a blow. We were mighty fortunate to come through it so handily.

1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:

(nautical, slang, derogatory) Any antiquated craft.

I once saw Hassett drop England opening batsman and compulsive hooker, Cyril Washbrook, twice in succession at deep fine leg.

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 32:

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.

We regard the first seven seconds of a television commercial as the most critical or crucial in the whole unit — the "Do or Die Seven" — the "moment of decision" or the "hooker", if you will, when we must capture the attention of the viewer, get him involved in the action, […]

1966, Charles Anthony Wainwright, The Television Copywriter, page 39:

(informal, dated) Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”)


bisexual

en-adj

bisexual (comparative more bisexual, superlative most bisexual)

more bisexual (comparative)
most bisexual (superlative)

Charles Gilbert Chaddock
Havelock Ellis
Otto Weininger
Palisot de Beauvois
Psychopathia Sexualis
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Robert John Thornton

From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

двухпо́лы

botany: having both male and female organs

The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]

1947, Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech:

At the desk, he completed the registration card, signing his name Jean Cable and giving a New York address. He did not know for sure that he was being pursued, but if so, he knew his pursuers would check new registrations around the city. The bisexual name would give them one more obstacle […]

1976, Frank V. Fowlkes, The Peruvian Contracts: A Novel, Putnam Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 128:

And although Stevens introduces Nanzia Nunzio as a woman, the inflections of the bisexual name and the symbolism implicit in the messenger's characteristics suggest that the "contemplated spouse" is something more than a woman.

Consider the identity play of the French artist who gave herself the bisexual name of Claude Cahun (1894–1954).

2003, Efrat Tseëlon, Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 59:

On August 16, in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Michael McConnell alone applied for a marriage license for himself and Baker, under his new adoptive name. The "bisexual name of Pat […]"

2005, Minnesota Law Review, volume 89, number 6, page 1762:

The Bionic Woman of the television serial of the seventies, though she wears ordinary dress most of the time, has the bisexual name of Jamie Summers.

2013, Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 307:

(chiefly botany) Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.


bisexual

ca-adj

bisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural bisexuals)


bisexual

ca-noun

bisexual m or f by sense (plural bisexuals)


bisexual

ro-adj

bisexual m or n (feminine singular bisexuală, masculine plural bisexuali, feminine and neuter plural bisexuale)

bisexuală (feminine singular)
bisexuali (masculine plural)
bisexuale (feminine neuter plural)
bisexual (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
bisexuală (feminine indefinite singular)
bisexuali (indefinite masculine plural)
bisexuale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
bisexualul (definite masculine neuter singular)
bisexuala (definite feminine singular)
bisexualii (definite masculine plural)
bisexualele (definite feminine neuter plural)
bisexuale (feminine indefinite singular)
bisexualului (definite masculine neuter singular)
bisexualei (definite feminine singular)
bisexualelor (definite masculine plural)
bisexualilor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French bisexuel. Equivalent to bi- + sexual.


bisexual

ro-noun

bisexual m (plural bisexuali, feminine equivalent bisexuală)

bisexuali (plural)
equivalent bisexuală (feminine)
bisexual (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bisexualul (accusative definite nominative singular)
bisexuali (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
bisexualii (accusative definite nominative plural)
bisexual (indefinite singular)
bisexualului (definite singular)
bisexuali (indefinite plural)
bisexualilor (definite plural)
bisexualule (singular vocative)
bisexualilor (plural vocative)


bisexual

es-adj

bisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural bisexuales)


bisexual

es-noun

bisexual m or f by sense (plural bisexuales)


little

en-noun

little (countable and uncountable, plural littles)

From Middle English litel, from Old English lyttel, lȳtel, from Proto-West Germanic *lūtil, from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“tending to stoop, crouched, little”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to bend, bent, small”), equivalent to lout + -le. Cognate with Dutch luttel, regional German lütt and lützel, Saterland Frisian litje, West Frisian lyts, Low German lütt, lüttje. Related also to Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend low”); and perhaps to Old English lytiġ (“deceitful”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts, “deceitful”), 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lutjan, “to deceive”); compare also Icelandic lítill (“little”), Faroese lítil, Swedish liten, Danish liden, lille, Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils), which appear to have a different root vowel. More at lout.

der

An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.

(countable, BDSM, ABDL) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.


homo-

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”).

homo- + sexuell (“sexual”) → homosexuell (“homosexual”)


homo-

homo- + Ehe (“marriage”) → Homoehe (“same-sex marriage”)

homo- + -phobie (“-phobia”) → Homophobie (“homophobia”)

homo- (of or pertaining to homosexuality)


homo-

homo- + äktenskap (“marriage”) → homoäktenskap (“same-sex marriage”)

homo- + -fobi (“-phobia”) → homofobi (“homophobia”)


constellation

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Middle English constellacioun, constillacioun (“(astrology) position of the moon or a planet in relation to the ascendant sign of the zodiac; horoscope; (astronomy) formation of fixed stars, constellation; (astronomy) elevation or position of the sun”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French constellation (modern French constellation), or directly from its etymon Late Latin cōnstēllātiōnem, the accusative singular of cōnstēllātiō (“collection of stars supposed to exert an influence upon human affairs, constellation”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + stēlla (“star; meteor; planet”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”)) + -ātiō (suffix forming nouns).

nb...

constelacioun, constellacion, constellacyon, constellacyoun, constillacion, constillacione, constillacioune, constillatioun, constollacion, constolacioun

sterrebeeld

arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern, or a division of the sky including it

rykelmä

(figurative) A configuration or grouping of related things.

(sexuality) A network of connections between people who are in polyamorous relationships, for example between a person, their partner, and that person's partner.

suhdeverkosto

But alas such peruerse constellation nowe reigneth ouer men, that where some be aptely and naturally disposed to amitie, and fyndeth one, in similitude of studie and maners, equall to his expectation, and therfore kendeleth a feruent loue towarde that persone, puttinge all his ioye and delite in the praise and auauncement of him that he loueth, it hapneth that he which is loued, beinge promoted in honour, either of purpose neglecteth his frende, therby suppressynge libertie of speche or familiar resorte; or els esteming his mynde with his fortune onely, and nat with the suertie of frendship, hideth from him the secretes of his harte, and either trusteth no man, or els him whome prosperous fortune hath late brought in acquaintaunce.

1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Diuision of Ingratitude and the Dispraise therof”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 2nd book, pages 188–189:

[H]e was born under the constellation that gives a man skill, riches, and integrity, whatever that constellation may be, which is of the less consequence because babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and, indeed, if they could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babies at particular epochs.

1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “First Impressions”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 72:

The configuration of planets at a given time (especially a person's birth), as believed to affect events on Earth, or used for determining a horoscope.


necrophilia

en-noun

necrophilia (countable and uncountable, plural necrophilias)

/ˌnɛkɹə(ʊ)ˈfɪlɪə/

From necro- + -philia.
From necro- (Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “corpse, dead”)) + -philia (Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “affection”)), after German Nekrophilie (in Krafft-Ebing 1887).

uder

(sexuality) A pathological attraction to dead bodies.

(medicine) Pathological fascination with death.


bug-chaser

(gay slang) A man who practises bug-chasing.


batty man

From Caribbean slang batty (“buttocks”) + man (“person”).

(Jamaica and Caribbean derogatory slang) A homosexual man.


batty boy

From Caribbean slang batty (“buttocks”) + boy (“person”).

(Jamaica, Caribbean, UK, Canada derogatory slang) A homosexual man.


bi-curious

en-adj

bi-curious (comparative more bi-curious, superlative most bi-curious)

more bi-curious (comparative)
most bi-curious (superlative)

/bʌɪˈkjʊə.ɹɪəs/

/bʌɪˈkjɔː.ɹɪəs/

From bi + curious. First appears c. 1984 in a personal ad in the newspaper The Orange County Register.

Bi curious M/F or cpls.

1984, anonymous author, Register (Orange County, California):

"Does this make us bi-curious, or are some dudes just that girly?"

2014 October 8, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 8, 2014:

Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.

2016 October 7, Juliet Bennett Rylah, “Skirt Club Is a Sex Club for the Casually Bisexual Modern Woman”, in VICE:

(LGBTQ) Interested in having relationships with both men and women, curious about one's potential bisexuality; especially, of heterosexual people, considering a first sexual experience with a member of the same sex.

bischierig

Curious about one's potential bisexuality


come out of the closet

en-verb

come out of the closet (third-person singular simple present comes out of the closet, present participle coming out of the closet, simple past came out of the closet, past participle come out of the closet)

comes out of the closet (present singular third-person)
coming out of the closet (participle present)
came out of the closet (past)
come out of the closet (participle past)

She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism.

Now, we're coming out / Out of our closets / Out on the streets / Yeah, we're coming out

1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Make Up”, in Transformer:

(intransitive, idiomatic) To tell others about one's homosexuality, bisexuality, transness, or any minority or disapproved-of identity, belief, preference, etc., where previously this had been kept secret.

sortir de l'armari

to tell others about a secret belief or preference


jailbait

en-noun

jailbait (usually uncountable, plural jailbaits)

From jail + bait, from the fact that statutory rape can result, for the adult committing it, in incarceration.

"The first time she modelled for Edward Weston, in March 1934, Charis Wilson knew she didn’t look good. At 20 she was “a piece of jailbait”, a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair."

2009, The Economist, Charis Wilson, model and writer, died on November 20th, aged 95:

(slang) A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being sexually attractive and/or seductive.

禍水妞

person below the age of consent for sexual activity

malebait

an underage male perceived to be attractive by adult females


closeted

en-adj

closeted (comparative more closeted, superlative most closeted)

more closeted (comparative)
most closeted (superlative)

From closet (“state of concealment”) + -ed.

Sally Gearhart, an ex-christian from Illinois who in the early seventies abandoned closeted lesbianism on Midwestern church college faculties for radical feminism in San Francisco,

1979 December 15, Jil Clark, Sally Gearhart, “Spirituality vs. Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 8:

1992, Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995, Part Two: Perestroika, Act One, Scene 4, p. 156,
Belize: Get out your oven mitts. Guess who just checked in with the troubles? The Killer Queen Herself. New York's number one closeted queer.

romantic orientation
romantic orientation

(informal) Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

skabs-

not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity


bottom

en-noun

bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)

→ Dutch: bottom

→ French: bottom

PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.

سَالِب

gay sexual slang: penetrated partner in sex

Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.

1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:

(BDSM) A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.

(broadly, by extension) A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.


bottom

en-verb

bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)

bottoms (present singular third-person)
bottoming (participle present)
bottomed (participle past)
bottomed (past)

(BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.


bottom

bottom dysphoria

bottom surgery


bottom

nl-noun

bottom m (plural bottoms, diminutive bottommetje n)

bottoms (plural)
bottommetje (diminutive neuter)

Unadapted borrowing from English bottom. Doublet of bodem.

Coordinate term: top

(LGBTQ slang) bottom (passive role in male-male sex)


moneyboy

(slang, LGBTQ, especially in China and Thailand) A rentboy; a (usually young) male who earns money by offering sexual services.


sub

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
* (lend a person money): From subsidize.

[…] roleplay where a sub or bottom takes care of a top's bodily and hygiene needs […]

2004, Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang:

"It means that I'm both a sub and a dom." "Submissive and dominant," I said. He nodded.

2007, Laurell K Hamilton, The Harlequin:

Typically a dom and a sub have a more or less standard routine that they like to go through all the time.

2008, Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex:

We're not that kind of sub!

2012, “Karai's Vendetta”, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

(BDSM, informal) Clipping of submissive.


sub

en-verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

subs (present singular third-person)
subbing (participle present)
subbed (participle past)
subbed (past)

switch

one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role

You've never subbed before. Jessica will be expecting a man on stage that follows orders and enjoys what she's going to be doing. Do you want to be spanked? Possibly whipped?

2012, Alicia White, Jessica's Breakdown, page 53:

Wasn't like she'd never subbed before. She'd been a sub longer than she'd been a Dominatrix–ten years she'd spent in a collar.

2012, Tiffany Reisz, Little Red Riding Crop:


auntie

Tok Pisin: anti

Torres Strait Creole: anti

→ Burmese: အန်တီ (anti)

⇒ Chinese: 安娣 (āndī)

→ Pennsylvania German: Aendi

→ Scottish Gaelic: antaidh

→ Yoruba: àǹtí


homocentric

en-adj

homocentric (comparative more homocentric, superlative most homocentric)

more homocentric (comparative)
most homocentric (superlative)

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With this year's onslaught of homocentric networks, queer television programs for 2005 literally run the entire gay gamut.

2005 September 27, The Advocate, number 947, page 62:

(LGBTQ) Having a homosexual bias or basis.


kurva

sh-noun

kȗrva f (Cyrillic spelling ку̑рва, augmentative kurvètina, relational adjective kùrvīnskī)

kȗrva (canonical feminine)
ку̑рва (Cyrillic)
kurvètina (augmentative)
kùrvīnskī (adjective relational)
kȗrva (nominative singular)
kurve (nominative plural)
kurve (genitive singular)
kȗrāva (genitive plural)
kȗrvī (genitive plural)
kurvi (dative singular)
kurvama (dative plural)
kurvu (accusative singular)
kurve (accusative plural)
kurvo (singular vocative)
kurve (plural vocative)
kurvi (locative singular)
kurvama (locative plural)
kurvom (instrumental singular)
kurvama (instrumental plural)

→ Balkan Romani: kùrva

→ Vlax Romani: kùrva

(vulgar, offensive) (regardless of gender) a worthless, despicable, unlikable person

(vulgar, offensive) bitch, a despicable, disagreeable, objectionable woman


anti-gay

en-adj

anti-gay (comparative more anti-gay, superlative most anti-gay)

more anti-gay (comparative)
most anti-gay (superlative)

Against or opposed to gay people, or to rights for gay people.

反同的

against or opposed to gay people, or to rights for gay people


hebephilia

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From hebe- (“relating to youth”) + -philia.

sexual relationship between a man and an adolescent boy

This finding, if confirmed, may offer a useful lead for research in heterosexual pedophilia or hebephilia (a preference for pubescent girls)

1975 Forensic Science Abstracts - Volume 1 - Page 216

paraphilias are included: hebephilia (adolescent girls) and ephebophilia (adolescent boys), although the dynamics of these latter two may be closer to those of adult attraction.

1989 Robert H. Rencken Intervention Strategies for Sexual Abuse page 10

(dated) A sexual preference for adolescent girls.


ephebophilia

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From Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”) + φιλία (philía, “love, friendship”). By surface analysis, ephebe + -philia.

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The assertion, often naïvely made, that in the Homeric poems there is as yet no trace of the love of boys to be met with, and that it was a phenomenon which first appeared during the so-called decadence is, in my opinion, false, for I have already shown in an earlier work (in Anthropophyteia, ix, pp. 291 ff.) that the bond of friendship between Achilles and Patroclus (the most important passages are Il., xxiii, 84; ix, 186, 663; xviii, 22 ff., 65, 315, 334; xix, 209, 315), however ideal it was, yet contains a high percentage of homoerotic sentiment and action; that the Homeric epos also abounds in undoubted traces of ephebophilia, and that no one in the ancient times of Greece ever supposed otherwise.

1932, Hans Licht [pseudonym; Paul Brandt], translated by J. H. Freese, “[Male Homosexuality] History of Greek Love of Boys”, in Lawrence H. Dawson, editor, Sexual Life in Ancient Greece, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. […], published 1933, part II, pages 449–450:

1981 Brian Taylor, PhD Perspectives on Paedophilia page XIII
Thus, paedophilia, denoting sexual interest in pre-pubertal children, can be distinguished from paederasty, indicating sexual interest in pre-pubertal boys alone. These two together could then be distinguished from ephebophilia, denoting sexual preference for post-pubertal and adolescent boys.

Freund, "Male Homosexuality," p. 44 .. "Paedophilia is the erotic preference for children, ephebophilia that for male ... pubescents."

1983 Robin Scroggs The New Testament and Homosexuality: Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate page 148

2006 Looking at Ephebophilia through the Lens of Cleric Sexual Abuse from volume 13 issue 4 of "Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity"

The term ephebophilia seems to have been coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in his Wesen der Liebe (1906), where he applied to sexually mature youths from puberty up to the age of 20; in his 1914 magnum opus, Die Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes, Hirschfeld specified the range of love objects as from "the beginning to the completion of maturity, so approximately ages 14-21." The German research estimated that 45 of all homosexuals were ephebophiles. For women, he used the term "parthenophiles."
The authors propose that the diagnosis of ephebophilia, which is a sexual attraction to pubescent or post-pubescent males, is better suited to the sample of Catholic priests in the John Jay study.

2016, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, page 361:

(dated) A sexual preference for adolescent boys.


pedophilia

en-noun

pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias)

Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”).

cog

sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children

تَحَرُّش جِنْسِيّ بِٱلأَطْفَال (taḥarruš jinsiyy bi-l-ʔaṭfāl, literally “child sexual harassment”)

کَم عُمْر بَچّوں سے جِنْسی میلان کی بِیماری (kam 'umr baccõ se jinsī melān kī bīmārī, literally “sexual orientation disorder with young children”)

Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. […] The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct.

1998, Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia, […]

2005, Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 88:

It's quite another (a bad idea) to expect amateurs to figure out who is telling the truth about Iraq, or which priests have committed pedophilia.

2007, Todd Oppenheimer, “Read All about It -- but Where, Exactly?”, in SFGate, Hearst Communications:

(by extension, proscribed) Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.


madam

From Middle English madame, from Old French madame, from ma (“my”) + dame (“lady”), from post-classical Latin mea domina. Doublet of Madonna.

After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam.

I sneaked into the house and stole my sister’s Hudson-seal fur coat out of the closet, then I beat it down to a whorehouse and sold it to the madam for $150.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 54:

(slang) A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.


madam

nl-noun

madam f (plural madammen or madams, diminutive madammeke n or madammeken n or madammetje n)

madammen (plural)
madams (plural)
madammeke (diminutive neuter)
madammeken (diminutive neuter)
madammetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: madam

→ Indonesian: madam


chaser

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

преследва́ч

person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases

These types despise TGentlemen and insist that any man who is interested in TGirls is automatically a troll, a chaser, or just a gay man in denial.

2016, Michael David Freel, Trans-Oriented: A Guide to Love and Relationships, →ISBN:

(slang) A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.

(LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.

(fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.

(taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.


chaser

From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) + -er.

bow chaser; stern chaser


gaff

From Middle English gaffe, from Old French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (“hook”), derivative of gafar (“to seize”), from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐍆- (gaff-) derived from 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (giban, “to give”). Doublet of gaffe.
The underwear sense apparently derives from the idea that the garment tricks or deceives others about the wearer's genitalia.

This may sound strange to readers who know little about nudes but many female impersonators, or femme-mimics, work au naturel—except for a gaff, a bra, body makeup, jewelry, and a wig (on their head). See! Semi-nude!!

1964, Kenneth Marlowe, Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 17:

Sissy maids may be required to wear a gaff to disguise the male genitals, and a dominant may wish a slave to wear it on a daily basis.

1996, Christina Abernathy, Miss Abernathy's Concise Slave Training Manual, San Francisco: Greenery Press, →ISBN, page 35:

Vicky is a pre-operative MTF transsexual […] Wearing feminine underwear over her gaff in bed helps her to redefine her absence of female genitalia during sex (sexuality) in terms of it being her 'time of the month', as she jokes to Sean [her first boyfriend].

2006, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The Transgender Phenomenon, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 227:

(LGBTQ) A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the male genitalia tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.


gaff

She bought a roll of black gaff to tape down the loose cords.

(informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.


putain

→? English: poontang, pootang

Inherited from Old French putain, originally the oblique case of pute (“dirty woman”) formed with the suffix -ain, from Vulgar Latin pūtta, from Latin pūta (“girl”). Compare with salope, Italian puttana, Spanish puta.


mono

en-adj

mono (comparative more mono, superlative most mono)

more mono (comparative)
most mono (superlative)

Coordinate term: poly


mac

(colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.


schwul

de-adj

schwul (strong nominative masculine singular schwuler, comparative schwuler, superlative am schwulsten)

schwuler (masculine nominative singular strong)
schwuler (comparative)
am schwulsten (superlative)
schwul (masculine predicative singular)
schwul (feminine predicative singular)
schwul (neuter predicative singular)
schwul (plural predicative)
schwuler (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
schwule (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
schwules (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
schwule (nominative plural strong without-article)
schwulen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
schwuler (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
schwulen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
schwuler (genitive plural strong without-article)
schwulem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
schwuler (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
schwulem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
schwulen (dative plural strong without-article)
schwulen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
schwule (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
schwules (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
schwule (accusative plural strong without-article)
der schwule (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die schwule (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das schwule (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die schwulen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des schwulen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der schwulen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des schwulen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der schwulen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem schwulen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der schwulen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem schwulen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den schwulen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den schwulen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die schwule (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das schwule (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die schwulen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein schwuler (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine schwule (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein schwules (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
schwulen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine schwulen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines schwulen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer schwulen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines schwulen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schwulen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner schwulen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem schwulen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer schwulen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem schwulen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schwulen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen schwulen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen schwulen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine schwule (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein schwules (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schwulen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine schwulen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
schwuler (comparative masculine predicative singular)
schwuler (comparative feminine predicative singular)
schwuler (comparative neuter predicative singular)
schwuler (comparative plural predicative)
schwulerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
schwulere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
schwuleres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
schwulere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
schwuleren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
schwulerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
schwuleren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
schwulerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
schwulerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
schwulerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
schwulerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
schwuleren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
schwuleren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
schwulere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
schwuleres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
schwulere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der schwulere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die schwulere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das schwulere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die schwuleren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des schwuleren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der schwuleren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des schwuleren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der schwuleren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem schwuleren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der schwuleren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem schwuleren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den schwuleren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den schwuleren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die schwulere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das schwulere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die schwuleren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein schwulerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine schwulere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein schwuleres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
schwuleren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine schwuleren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines schwuleren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer schwuleren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines schwuleren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schwuleren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner schwuleren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem schwuleren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer schwuleren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem schwuleren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schwuleren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen schwuleren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen schwuleren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine schwulere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein schwuleres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schwuleren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine schwuleren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am schwulsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am schwulsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am schwulsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am schwulsten (plural predicative superlative)
schwulster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
schwulsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
schwulstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
schwulsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
schwulste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der schwulste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die schwulste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das schwulste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die schwulsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des schwulsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der schwulsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des schwulsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der schwulsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem schwulsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der schwulsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem schwulsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den schwulsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den schwulsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die schwulste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das schwulste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die schwulsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein schwulster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine schwulste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein schwulstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
schwulsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine schwulsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines schwulsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer schwulsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines schwulsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
schwulsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner schwulsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem schwulsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer schwulsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem schwulsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
schwulsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen schwulsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen schwulsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine schwulste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein schwulstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
schwulsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine schwulsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

Borrowed from Middle Low German swōl, swūl (“sultry, hot and humid”) (17th century), adopted into Standard German as schwül in the 18th century, ultimately from the root of schwelen (“to smoulder”).
The older form without umlaut appears in Berlin dialect in the 19th century in the current sense, building on the slang term warm (as in warmer Bruder) for ‘homosexual’. The earliest attestation of this sense dates to 1847 (Paul Derks).


on the game

UK late-19th century. However, the game as a euphemism for sexual activity dates to at least Troilus and Cressida (1602): "Set them down / For sluttish spoils of opportunity / And daughters of the game." Compare with the similar euphemism sport.

Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.

1986 January 9, Ben Elton, Richard Curtis, Bells (Blackadder II), episode 1, spoken by Kate's Father (Edward Jewesbury):

What's he want it for anyway? Don't tell me he's going on the game.

1990 November 18, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:

(UK, idiomatic, slang, euphemistic) Working as a prostitute.


œuf

→ English: oeuf

⇒? English: love (“score of zero”)

Haitian Creole: ze

→ Limburgish: äöf

Inherited from Middle French œuf, from Old French oef, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Compare Occitan uòu.

mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier

on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs


purveyor

From Anglo-Norman purveour, from Old French porveor, agent noun from porveoir. See purvey. Doublet of provedore and proveditor.

But a Prince is no more to be his own caterer in his Love, than in his food; therefore Aurengezebe has ever in waiting two purveyors for his dishes, and his wenches for his retired hours

1709 August 6 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Tuesday, July 26, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 46; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:


hot rod

Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.


酷兒

Phono-semantic matching of English queer.

psm

/kʰu⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵/

/hʊk̚² jiː²¹/

/kʰu⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵/

/hʊk̚² jiː²¹/

北京酷兒合唱團

北京酷儿合唱团


fem

Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.

2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge, →ISBN:


fem

en-adj

fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)

more fem (comparative)
most fem (superlative)

Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]

2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 79:


fem

Borrowed from English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)). English fem is itself from French femme.

Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c’est une gouine qui n’a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n’est pas un passe-droit pour d’intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.

2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23–24:

a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)


vanilla

en-noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

(countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.


vanilla

en-adj

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

more vanilla (comparative)
most vanilla (superlative)

An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.

2006, Felix Lance Falkon, Gay Art: A Historic Collection, →ISBN, page 136:

While Dominick was more of a vanilla kind of a guy himself, he wasn't a total dunce when it came to the kinkier sides of things.

2010, Chloe Stowe, Hard Water, →ISBN, page 37:

Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman.

2014, Christina Thacher, The Negotiation: A BDSM Romance, →ISBN:

(sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.


kiki

In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.

Let's have a kiki / I wanna have a kiki / Lock the doors tight / Let's have a kiki

2012 September 11, Scissor Sisters (lyrics and music), “Let's Have a Kiki”, in Magic Hour, track 6:

Get on my knees and have a kiki with Jesus

2016 April 22, Lucian Piane (lyrics and music), “Pray & Slay”, in RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Rusical:

(LGBTQ, slang, US) A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiki.

(LGBTQ, US, derogatory, dated or historical) A lesbian who is neither butch nor femme.


kiki

en-verb

kiki (third-person singular simple present kikis, present participle kiki-ing, simple past and past participle kikied)

kikis (present singular third-person)
kiki-ing (participle present)
kikied (participle past)
kikied (past)

We spent a whole lot of time kiki'ing around—fooling around.

2010, David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, page 130:

Went home, changed for my show, kikied with Bruce and walked over to the apartment for my weekly meeting and Sally was just walking into the building from Sirius.

2016, Andy Cohen, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries:

“I still had my corporate job, so we would talk on GChat all day while I was at work,” says Olisa. (She’s still based in New York; Garner Valentine has since relocated to Georgia. Both are in their 30s.) “To the outside world, I was working diligently, but I was really kiki-ing with my friend.”

2019 September 5, Ana Colón, “How Two Women Turned $12 Into the Curvy Con, the Biggest Plus-Size Event at Fashion Week”, in Glamour:

(LGBTQ, slang, US) To meet with friends without any agenda or goals.


les

(slang, colloquial, derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.


les

en-adj

les (comparative more les, superlative most les)

more les (comparative)
most les (superlative)


pimp

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).

unk

unknown

ncog

A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore

2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook (lyrics and music), “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:

All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label

2018, Brendon Urie, Michael Angelakos, Sam Hollander, Morgan Kibby, Jake Sinclair, Dillon Francis (lyrics and music), “Hey Look Ma, I Made It”, in Pray for the Wicked, performed by Panic! at the Disco:

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.


pack

en-verb

pack (third-person singular simple present packs, present participle packing, simple past and past participle packed)

packs (present singular third-person)
packing (participle present)
packed (participle past)
packed (past)

From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”).

وَضَّبَ

to put things together for storage or transporting

I am a butch bisexual woman […] Frequently I like to appear as masculine as I can, often passing for male on the street. […] Sometimes I pack when I go out, putting my dildo in my pants and wearing my dick out of the house.

1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 181:

(intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.


trans

Clipping of transgender or transsexual (ultimately from Latin trāns).

Last week, a study released in Belgium suggested that trans people’s brains – including those of trans children – more closely matched those belonging to other members of the gender they identified with than with members of the gender associated with their sex at birth.


trans

Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.

2001 November 23, D a#344, “TS out and proud compensation for passabilty?”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

(informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.


trans

From English trans. Within German, analyzable as a shortening of transgender, transident or transgeschlechtlich.

trans Person

Viel Potenzial für Verbesserung der Situation für trans Personen sieht sie*er unter den gegebenen Verhältnissen nicht: „Es ist nicht möglich, Transfeindlichkeit in diesem System auszulöschen. Das System muss beseitigt werden.“

2022 September 6, Emma Rotermund, “Demo gegen Queerfeindlichkeit: Angriff auf trans Frau verstört”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:


trans

[t̪ʰɯˈɾ̞ɑn̪s̪]


ginger beer

en-noun

ginger beer (countable and uncountable, plural ginger beers)

Have no fear, the ninja here / Feel 'em like the tinge in your ear from drinkin' ginger beer

2004, “Kon Queso”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom:

(uncountable) A fermented, typically non-alcoholic, drink flavoured with ginger.


nancy

From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names. Compare Mary.

(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, US, derogatory, slang, offensive) An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.


poof

pouffe (with certain dialects and/or accents)

The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.


tranny

tranny (countable and uncountable, plural trannies)

All are shortened forms of the indicated terms + -y.

When I spoke with lesbians, most would tell me, “I don't date trannies. […]

2018, Roddie Lee Kingsfield, M.Ed., Purple Passionflower: The Path to Becoming a Powerful Trans Peace Warrior, page 56:

(slang, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A transsexual, transgender, or transvestite person, usually a trans woman.

травестит

(colloquial, derogatory) a transsexual, transgender or transvestite person


hora

hora (indefinite nominative singular)
horas (genitive indefinite singular)
horan (definite nominative singular)
horans (definite genitive singular)
horor (indefinite nominative plural)
horors (genitive indefinite plural)
hororna (definite nominative plural)
horornas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure. Doublet of kär.

inh

(derogatory) a whore (promiscuous person, slut)


jazz

en-noun

jazz (usually uncountable, plural jazzes)

→ Arabic: جَاز (jāz)

→ Armenian: ջազ (ǰaz)

→ Bulgarian: джаз (džaz)

→ Catalan: jazz, džez

→ Czech: jazz

→ Danish: jazz

→ Dutch: jazz

→ Esperanto: ĵazo

→ Estonian: džäss

→ Faroese: djassur

→ Finnish: jazz, jatsi

→ French: jazz

→ Georgian: ჯაზი (ǯazi)

→ German: Jazz

→ Greek: τζαζ (tzaz)

desc

→ Hebrew: ג׳ז, ג׳אז

→ Hebrew: ג׳ז, ג׳אז

→ Hungarian: dzsessz, jazz

→ Icelandic: djass, jass

→ Italian: jazz

→ Japanese: ジャズ (jazu)

→ Korean: 재즈 (jaejeu)

→ Latvian: džezs

→ Lithuanian: džiazas

→ Macedonian: џез (džez)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: jazz

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: jazz

→ Persian: جاز

→ Polish: jazz, dżez

→ Portuguese: jazz

→ Romanian: jazz

→ Russian: джаз (džaz)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: џе̏з

Latin script: džȅz

→ Slovak: džez

→ Slovene: džẹ̑z

→ Spanish: jazz

→ Swedish: jazz

→ Tagalog: dyas, diyas

→ Thai: แจ๊ส (jɛ́ɛt)

→ Turkish: caz

→ Ukrainian: джаз (džaz)

→ Yiddish: דזשאַז (dzhaz)

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!

1927, Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, The Jazz Singer, spoken by Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson):

You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 30:

You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh.

1995, Mike Reiss, Al Jean, “'Round Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 22, spoken by Bill Cosby:

(music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.


jazz

en-verb

jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)

jazzes (present singular third-person)
jazzing (participle present)
jazzed (participle past)
jazzed (past)

‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’

1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59:

(intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’

1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 119:

(intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.


eromenos

/ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).

lbor

Coordinate term: erastes

In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.

1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 1:

(historical) An adolescent boy in Ancient Greece who was courted by an older man, or was in an erotic relationship with him.

éromène

the younger partner in a pederastic relationship


erastes

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”).

Coordinate term: eromenos

In regard to the boys (erōmenos) involved in ancient Greek pederasty, Dover (1978:52) asked: “What does the eromenos get out of submission to his erastēs?”

2002, Stephen O Murray, Pacific Homosexualities, iUniverse, page 80:

(historical) An adult man in Ancient Greece who courted or was in a pederastic relationship with an adolescent boy.

éraste

the older partner in a pederastic relationship


prostitution

en-noun

prostitution (usually uncountable, plural prostitutions)

(by extension) Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.


prostitution

head

prostitution c (singular definite prostitutionen, not used in plural form)

prostitutionen (definite singular)
prostitution (indefinite nominative singular)
prostitutionen (definite nominative singular)
prostitutions (genitive indefinite singular)
prostitutionens (definite genitive singular)


cyẅres

cywresau (plural)
cyẅres
gyẅres (soft)
nghyẅres
chyẅres


(sexuality) Alternative form of soixante-neuf


polyandry

en-noun

polyandry (usually uncountable, plural polyandries)

The having of a plurality of husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a woman to more than one man, or the practice of having several husbands, at the same time.


wench

Sranan Tongo: wenke

The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wenċel, winċel (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankilą, from Proto-Germanic *wankijaną (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wankōn (“to totter”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

When they had kyndled a fyre in the myddes of the palys / and were sett doune to gedder / Peter alsoo sate doune amonge them. And won off the wenches / as he sate / beholde him by the light and sett goode eyesight on him / and sayde: This same was also with hym. Then he denyed hym sayinge: Woman I knowe hym nott.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxij:[55–57], folios cxiiii, recto – cxiiii, verso:

"I fear there is a chase; I think I hear three or four galloping together; I am sure I hear more horses than one." / "Pooh, pooh, it is the wench of the house that is clattering to the well in her pattens; […]."

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 150:

[W]orking for Colonel Boone a the time—and two more men whose names I disremember now, and a nigger wench we had for a cook. […] So I got onto one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o' the rest o' the outfit was a fixin the saddles and greasing the wagon.

1881, Henry Inman, “A Legend of Pawnee Rock; or How the Life of an Old Trapper was Saved by a Bird”, in Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail, Kansas City, Mo.: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, pages 89 and 91:

(archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.

2 [Friar Bernardine]. Thou haſt committed— / Bar[abas]. Fornication? but that was in another Country; And beſides, the Wench is dead.

c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, signature G2, verso:

Whilſt Men have theſe Ambitious Fancies, / And wanton Wenches read Romances, / Our Sex will—What? out with it: Lye: / And Theirs in equal Strains reply.

1702, Mat[thew] Prior, “To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 103:

It must not thought a digression from my intended speculation, to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches; for a woman of the town is not thoroughly and properly such, without having gone through the education of one of these houses.

1712 January 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, January 4, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 266; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 329:

(archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).

Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto / Proved to be free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. / / Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.

1776–1787, Carmelita Robertson, Elizabeth E. D. Eve, Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776–87 (Curatorial Report; no. 91), Halifax, N.S.: History Section, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Tourism & Culture, published 2000, →ISBN:

Now, I bought a gal once, when I was in the trade,—a tight, likely wench she was, too, and quite considerable smart— [...]

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “[Eliza’s Escape]”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 100:

A colored girl […] was fined ten dollars in the Freedman's Court yesterday, for being drunk and disorderly. Not having the money in her possession, she requested that a guard be sent with her to her residence to procure it. The Provost allowed a guard to wait on the wench, who, as soon as she found herself inside of her own door, locked it, and left the poor guard outside without the money. He returned to court without either the wench or fine.

1866 March 2, “Sharp Wench”, in The Appeal, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minn.: Parker, Burgett & Hardy, →OCLC, page 3; quoted in Hannah Rosen, “Notes”, in Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, →ISBN, footnote 186, page 282:

So complete was this illusion, claims [Eric] Lott, that many audience members, including Mark Twain's mother, believed they were seeing authentic, biologically black performers on New York stages. Of course, wench characters seem to especially test the bounds of authentic performance. Played by men, wenches were nonetheless read by audiences as beautiful women: [...] [E]xtant photographs and engravings of wench performers do not always represent them as blacked up, […] In antebellum minstrel shows, wench songs were most often sung about mulatto women rather than by them.

2014, Kirsten Pullen, “Light Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Representation of Black Femininity”, in Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, pages 106–107:

(US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.


clone

→ Italian: clone

→ Polish: klon

→ Turkish: klon

Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.

Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.

1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7:

these are cultural categories. they change over time. new ones appear (the Leatherman is recent, the Bear very recent), old ones vanish (though individual aunties and clones are still to be found - arch-clone jimmy pike is still making videos and keeping his stomach muscles in great shape - the Auntie and the Clone as generally recognized categories are no longer with us).

1991 August 31, Arnold M. Zwicky, “What the hell is a TWINKIE?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Since the Second World War and the rise of the middle-class “clone gay” in the US and a similar move away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.

2022, Richard Vytniorgu, “Effeminate Gay Bottoms in the West”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 70, number 10, page 2113:


lipstick lesbian

en-noun

lipstick lesbian (plural lipstick lesbians)

Mona dashed to the window and peeped down at an elegantly dressed brunette waiting in the entrance alcove. She certainly looked like a friend of Serra's. The lipstick lesbians were everywhere.

1986 [1984], Armistead Maupin, Babycakes (Tales of the City), page 65:

(LGBTQ, slang) A lesbian who has glamorously feminine characteristics, as opposed to a butch lesbian.


slut

en-verb

slut (third-person singular simple present sluts, present participle slutting, simple past and past participle slutted)

sluts (present singular third-person)
slutting (participle present)
slutted (participle past)
slutted (past)

From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet.

cog

Shirley, you slut around here again, and I swear to God I'll break your neck.

The radicals are reluctant to admit that slutting around is a phase that most gay men go through, but not a permanent — what's that phrase? Oh, yes — "lifestyle choice."

2001 January, Dan Savage, “Sluts Like Us”, in Out, volume 9, number 7, page 37:

(slang, vulgar, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.


inter-

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Borrowed from Latin inter- (“between, amid”), a form of prepositional inter (“between”).

bor+

intersexual is an intersex person; interphobia is fear or hatred of intersex people, intergender is an intersex person whose gender identity is influenced by being intersex

(LGBTQ) Intersex: relating to intersex people.


verse

fr-noun

verse f (countable and uncountable, plural verses)

(especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship; a switch.


saga

-saga (canonical)
kusaga (infinitive)
kusaga (infinitive)
kutosaga (infinitive negative)
saga (imperative singular)
sageni (imperative plural)
husaga (habitual)
positive subject concord + -lisaga (past)
negative subject concord + -kusaga (negative past)
ninasaga (first-person present singular)
nasaga (first-person present singular)
tunasaga (first-person plural present)
unasaga (present second-person singular)
mnasaga (plural present second-person)
anasaga (class-1 class-2 present singular third-person)
wanasaga (class-1 class-2 plural present third-person)
positive subject concord + -nasaga (present third-person)
sisagi (first-person negative present singular)
hatusagi (first-person negative plural present)
husagi (negative present second-person singular)
hamsagi (negative plural present second-person)
hasagi (class-1 class-2 negative present singular third-person)
hawasagi (class-1 class-2 negative plural present third-person)
negative subject concord + -sagi (negative present third-person)
positive subject concord + -tasaga (future)
negative subject concord + -tasaga (future negative)
nisage (first-person singular subjunctive)
tusage (first-person plural subjunctive)
usage (second-person singular subjunctive)
msage (plural second-person subjunctive)
asage (class-1 class-2 singular subjunctive third-person)
wasage (class-1 class-2 plural subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -sage (subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -sisage (negative subjunctive)
positive subject concord + -ngesaga (irrealis present)
positive subject concord + -singesaga (irrealis negative present)
positive subject concord + -ngalisaga (irrealis past)
positive subject concord + -singalisaga (irrealis negative past)
nasaga (first-person gnomic singular)
twasaga (first-person gnomic plural)
wasaga (gnomic second-person singular)
mwasaga (gnomic plural second-person)
asaga (class-1 class-2 gnomic singular third-person)
wasaga (class-1 class-2 gnomic plural third-person)
wasaga (class-3 class-4 gnomic singular third-person)
yasaga (class-3 class-4 gnomic plural third-person)
lasaga (class-5 class-6 gnomic singular third-person)
yasaga (class-5 class-6 gnomic plural third-person)
chasaga (class-7 class-8 gnomic singular third-person)
vyasaga (class-7 class-8 gnomic plural third-person)
yasaga (class-10 class-9 gnomic singular third-person)
zasaga (class-10 class-9 gnomic plural third-person)
wasaga (class-11 gnomic singular third-person)
kwasaga (class-15 class-17 gnomic singular third-person)
pasaga (class-16 gnomic singular third-person)
mwasaga (class-18 gnomic singular third-person)
positive subject concord + -mesaga (perfect)
positive subject concord + -meshasaga (already-form)
negative subject concord + -jasaga (not-yet-form)
positive subject concord + -kisaga (if-when-form)
positive subject concord + -siposaga (if-not-form)
positive subject concord + -kasage (consecutive subjunctive)
-nisaga (first-person indicative object-concord singular)
-tusaga (first-person indicative object-concord plural)
-kusaga (indicative object-concord second-person singular)
-wasaga (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-kusageni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-wasageni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-msaga (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-wasaga (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-usaga (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-isaga (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-lisaga (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-yasaga (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-kisaga (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-visaga (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-isaga (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-zisaga (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-usaga (class-11 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-kusaga (class-15 class-17 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-pasaga (class-16 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-musaga (class-18 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-jisaga (indicative object-concord reflexive)
-sagaye (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-sagao (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-sagao (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-sagayo (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-sagalo (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-sagayo (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-sagacho (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-sagavyo (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-sagayo (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-sagazo (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-sagao (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-sagako (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-sagapo (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-sagamo (class-18 object-concord relative singular)
-yesaga (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-osaga (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-osaga (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-yosaga (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-losaga (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-yosaga (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-chosaga (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-vyosaga (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-yosaga (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-zosaga (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-osaga (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-kosaga (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-posaga (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-mosaga (class-18 object-concord relative singular)


pederasty

en-noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pederasty.wav

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδεραστία (paiderastía, “love of boys”), from παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, “pederast”), from παῖς (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”), from ἔραμαι (éramai, “to love”).

bor

Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.

(archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.


merkin

1617, probably a variant form of malkin, from Malde + -kin.

Well, I seem to recall Tori and Patrick being seen together, and a reference in People comes to mind, with a photo attached. I'm not for sure that Patrick is completely gay, but he's at least bi according to a person I know with first hand experience. Perhaps we have a dual merkin-beard relationship here, eh?

1996 January 10, Colin Wright, “Tori Spelling & Patrick Muldoon on NBC Movie”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):

(LGBTQ, slang) The male counterpart of a beard, a companion to a lesbian to feign her straightness.


TIM

en-noun

TIM (countable and uncountable, plural TIMs)

Abbreviation.
* (trans-identified male): when applied to trans women by transphobes, perhaps influenced by the name Tim.

trans-identified male
trans-identified male#English

(usually derogatory, offensive, dysphemistic) Initialism of trans-identified male.


torsk

From Old Swedish þorsker, from Old Norse þorskr, from Proto-Germanic *þurskaz.

(slang) a person who visits prostitutes; a john


zest

zest (countable and uncountable, plural zests)

(slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being effeminate or a flamboyant homosexual.


daddy

The guy I've been dating offered to do bondage with me, and I was like "Yes please, daddy."

The very attractive Daddy-type in the harness and cap.

1988 May 7, Christopher Wittke, “It Takes Two To Tango”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

(BDSM, sexual slang) A dominant male partner, often used as an address.


бабочка

ru-noun+

ба́бочка • (bábočka) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бочки, nominative plural ба́бочки, genitive plural ба́бочек)

ба́бочка (canonical)
bábočka (romanization)
ба́бочки (genitive)
ба́бочки (nominative plural)
ба́бочек (genitive plural)
ба́бочка (nominative singular)
ба́бочки (nominative plural)
ба́бочки (genitive singular)
ба́бочек (genitive plural)
ба́бочке (dative singular)
ба́бочкам (dative plural)
ба́бочку (accusative animate singular)
ба́бочек (accusative animate plural)
ба́бочку (accusative inanimate singular)
ба́бочки (accusative inanimate plural)
ба́бочкой (instrumental singular)
ба́бочкою (instrumental singular)
ба́бочками (instrumental plural)
ба́бочке (prepositional singular)
ба́бочках (plural prepositional)

Ru-бабочка.ogg

From ба́бка (bábka, “grandmother, old woman”) + -ка (-ka), originally a diminutive; from the folk belief that spirits of the dead live on as butterflies.


tray

(LGBTQ slang) A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)


presentation

en-noun

presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)

/ˌpɹɛzənˈteɪʃən/

From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesentātiōnem, accusative singular of praesentātiō (“representation, exhibition”).
Morphologically present + -ation

(mainly LGBT) Gender presentation; gender expression.


wig

Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!

(LGBTQ, Internet slang) An expression of shock.


hermaphrodite

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

deledash

organism having both male and female gonads

An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.

(biology) Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.

Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.

(biology) Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(World War I military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.


trick

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”).
The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

der

turn a trick

turn tricks

Perhaps the most important thing a prostitute learns is how to "manage" the client; how to con him into spending more money than he planned. Learning how to perform tricks takes only a few minutes. Learning how to "hustle" the client takes longer.

1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:

"How did you get into all this?" "I started doing tricks when I was young and I don't mean the magic circle. I learned about sex from an early age. There was nothing else to do in Pitsea except heavy petting and getting F grades at school."

2010, Richard Gill, Paloma Azul, page 139:

When he later asked her to strip and perform tricks for him, she refused, and he chased her away. She had similar experiences with other men until she eventually fell into prostitution: […]

2019, Julie S. Draskoczy, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag:

(slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.

As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."

Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed.

2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, page 99:

(slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.


trick

en-verb

trick (third-person singular simple present tricks, present participle tricking, simple past and past participle tricked)

tricks (present singular third-person)
tricking (participle present)
tricked (participle past)
tricked (past)

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
[…] and suddenly it was Maryellin, he & I in the bed. The guy was tall, lean & hard. Absolutely lovely body. For me, it was like my old tricking days.

Asked whether one possible way for lesbians to increase sexual satisfaction within a relationship would be to "trick" outside it, Pearlman said that this could be a "terrific turn-on" if done right, but that she generally wouldn't recommend it because of the high risk of jealousy and breakups.

1985 April 20, Betsy Duren, “Women's Studies Conference: Sex and Culture”, in Gay Community News, page 7:

To engage in prostitution or casual sex.


hormone

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).

hormon

synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone

I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.

(LGBTQ, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.


dykey

en-adj

dykey (comparative dykier or more dykey, superlative dykiest or most dykey)

dykier (comparative)
more dykey (comparative)
dykiest (superlative)
most dykey (superlative)

Let it all hang out. Let it seem bitchy, catty, dykey, Solanisesque, frustrated, crazy, nutty, frigid, ridiculous, bitter, embarrassing, man-hating, libelous, pure, unfair, envious, intuitive, low-down, stupid, petty, liberating.

1970 January, Robin Morgan, “Goodbye to All That”, in Rat:

[…] when Torrence is elected captain of the cheerleading team, another girl supports the subplot of girl cattiness by calling her a slut and calling the “real” gymnast who joins the team (emphasizing to the audience that cheering can't be “real” gymnastics), an uberdyke and a big dykey loser.

2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 230:

(slang, derogatory) Of a woman, whether actually lesbian or not, having stereotypically lesbian characteristics; that looks like a dyke.


変態

desctree

→ English: hentai (“pornographic anime or manga”)
→ Cebuano: hentai
→ Finnish: hentai
→ French: hentai
→ German: Hentai
→ Indonesian: hentai
→ Italian: hentai
→ Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)
→ Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)
→ Polish: hentai
→ Portuguese: hentai
→ Russian: хентай (xentaj)
→ Spanish: hentai
→ Swedish: hentai
→ Tagalog: hentai
→ Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Entomological Society of Japan
Mao Dun
ja:変態

First used as an entomological term in publications by the Entomological Society of Japan, with later non-entomological applications in the broader zoology and botany. The narrower sense, "abnormal" is attested in Chinese works, such as those by Mao Dun; but the strictest sense, "abnormal sexual tendency," - from a contraction of 変態性欲 (hentai seiyoku, literally “abnormal sexual desire”) - may have been due to a reinterpretation of 変 (hen) as a 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi, “adjectival verb”) meaning "strange," hence "strange state" rather than "change state."

(sexuality) Short for 変態性欲 (hentai seiyoku, “sexual perversion”).


TWOC

There is no scientific or medical research to support "trans panic" theory, and this defence is nothing but a poor justification for committing violence against TWOC.

2015, “Violence Against Queerfolk”, in Raix/zine, volume 1, number 2, page 9:

Her advocacy campaign, “Stop the Unjust Arrests of TWOC (Transgender Women of Color), #FreeEisha,” challenges what to be an inevitability for Black transgender women who dare to defend themselves against gender-based violence

2016, Ellen L. Short, Leo Wilton, Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations and Social Systems, →ISBN, page 156:

Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color.


hir

head

hir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

en-pron

But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.

1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:

I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.

1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 10:

Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.

1997 December 18, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 130:

T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."

2000 August 29, Peter David, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 137:

(nonstandard) Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.


gay icon

A celebrity who is much admired by gay men and/or lesbians.


dykon

LESBIAN ICONS AND REAL LESBIAN ICONS
If Madonna is the first among equals, the major female icon of the moment, she now has competition for dykon status in k. d. lang, who to many lesbians represents their very own 'real life' lesbian hera.

1994, Diane Hamer, Belinda Budge, The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous, page 36:

[…] Singer-songwriter Hawkins has become a '90s dykon, due to her free-spirited sensuality […]

1998, Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film, page 599:

Deneuve was more articulate when she said of her own dykon status, "The Hunger has a very strong image of beautiful women, so perhaps it is true. […] Yes, I showed you can be beautiful and be a lesbian."

1999, Ellis Hanson, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, page 190:

She [the television presenter Kirstie Allsopp] says the screen Kirstie – who is now something of a dykon thanks to her bossiness, her spike heels, her 'luscious dark hair' – is pretty close to the real thing, 'just more domineering'.

2004 September 5, The Observer Magazine, page 17:

(informal) A celebrity, especially a woman (often a lesbian), who is much admired by lesbians.


john

From the male given name John (q.v.), whose ubiquity led to extensive use of the name in generic contexts. Its use for toilets derives from John and Cousin John, which both probably relate to jacques and jakes, used in equivalent senses by the British and Irish.

The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:

In the first part of the video, Thad sucks the john's cock and takes a load in his mouth.

2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 233:

In-calls, where the john comes to the prostitute’s residence, are prohibited.

2013, McLachlin CJ, Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford (2013 SCC 72), para. 62

(slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.


cunnilingus

From Latin cunnus and lingō (“to lick”).

Le cunnilingus est une pratique sexuelle orale qui consiste à stimuler les différentes parties des organes génitaux féminins à l’aide de la langue, des lèvres ou du nez.

Cunnilingus is an oral sex act that consists of stimulating different parts of the female genitalia with the help of the tongue, lips or the nose.


bunter

Glavine was a renowned bunter of the ball.


bunter

(archaic) A woman who picks up rags in the streets.

(archaic, by extension) A low, vulgar woman.


invert

(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).

We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.

1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202:

(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.


invert

invert sugar

(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.


master

Sranan Tongo: masra

→ Catalan: màster

→ Finnish: master

→ French: master

→ German: Master

→ Polish: master

→ Portuguese: máster

→ Spanish: máster

→ Turkish: master

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

doublet

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

Coordinate term: mistress