List of LGBT slang
The following is a list of LGBT slurs. Many of the following terms are considered acceptable in a casual register when used by members within LGBT communities and their allies like family and friends, but are considered pejorative or inappropriate when used in formal contexts or by outsiders. Many also imply masculinity in women (e.g. "bull dyke") or effeminacy in men (e.g. "fairy").
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Female
- Bean flicker- "Likening the clitoris to a bean"[1]
- Butch, butch-broad[2]
- Carpet muncher (or rug muncher)[3]
- Celesbian
- Dyke (variations: bull dyke, bull dagger (alternatively bulldagger, bulldicker,[4] from 1920s black American slang))[5][6][7]
- Kitty puncher or pussy puncher with both kitty and pussy referring to a woman's vagina and puncher a variation on various derogatory terms for gay men like donut puncher et al.[10]
- Lezzie/Lesbo/Leso (also lezzer/lesser) (abbreviation for lesbian)[11]
- Muff Diver[12]
- The Game of Flats (an 18th century English term for sex between women)[13]
- Todger dodger, todger meaning penis[14]
Male
- Anal assassin (U.K) or anal astronaut[15]
- Ass Bandit[16] or arse bandit[17]
- Back door bandit[16]
- Backgammon player (late 18th century Britain)[18]
- Batty boy (alternatively botty boy)[19], also batty man
- Bender[20]
- Bent, bentshot[21] or bender[22]
- Bone smuggler[23]
- Brownie king or brown piper[24]
- Bufter, bufty (mainly Scottish) or booty buffer[15]
- Bugger (from Buggery)
- Bum bandit[16] or bun bandit[20]
- Bum boy or bum chum,[25] also bum robber[26]
- Bum-driller[27]
- Bumhole engineer[28]
- Butt pirate,[29] butt rider, or butt rustler[29]
- Charlie (rhyming slang for Charlie Ronce which rhymes with ponce)[30]
- Chi chi man (Jamaica and the Caribbean)[31][32]
- Chutney ferret[33]
- Cock gobbler
- Cock jockey[34]
- Cock knocker, cockknocker and cocknocker[34]
- Cockpipe cosmonaut[35]
- Donut puncher (or Doughnut puncher)[10]
- Faggot (variation: fag) (U.S., recorded from 1914)[36]
- Fairy (common and acceptable for part of the 20th century)[37]
- Flit[38]
- Fruit (also fruit loop, fruit packer, butt fruit)[39]
- Fudge packer[20]
- Harry hoofter, rhyming slang of poofter[40]
- Gaysian, referring to a gay Asian[41]
- Homo (abbreviation for homosexual)[42]
- Iron (hoof) or iron hoofter (rhyming slang for poof)[43]
- Jobby jabber (mainly Scottish with jobby referring to excrement)[44]
- Knob jockey[45]
- Light in the loafers[46]
- Limp wristed[47]
- Marmite miner[48]
- Mary[49]
- Nancy or nancy boy,[50] girlyboy[51] or nellie[52]
- Oklahomo[53]
- Pansy[54]
- Pillow biter[55] or mattress muncher,[48] referring to anal sex when one partner is face-down often into a pillow
- Poof (variations include: poofter, pouf, poove, pooftah, pooff, puff) (U.K, Australia, New Zealand, California)[56]
- Queen, princess and variations[57]
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- Bean queen (also taco queen or Salsa queen), gay man attracted to Hispanic gay men[49][58]
- Brownie queen, obsolete slang for gay man interested in anal sex (used by men who disliked anal sex)[59]
- Chicken queen, older gay man interested in younger or younger appearing men[60]
- Curry queen, gay man attracted to Asian-Indian gay men[34]
- Dinge queen, gay man attracted to black gay men (offensive use of "dinge" meaning black)[61]
- Drag queen, gay man into cross-dressing for performance[61]
- Gym queen, gay man given to athletic development[62]
- Pissy queen, gay man perceived as fussy[56]
- Scat queen, gay man into coprophilia[63]
- Ring raider[15]
- Sausage jockey (U.K)[64]
- Shirt lifter[65]
- Shit stabber[63]
- Sod (from Sodomy)
- Toby[14]
- Turd burglar[14]
- Twink
- Uphill gardener, referring to the logistics of anal intercourse[66]
- Upstairs gardner, referring to the logistics of anal intercourse[66]
- Woolly,[67] woofter and woolie woofter, a character from an Evening Standard cartoon and rhyming slang for poofter[68]
Both
See also
References
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 82)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 222)
- ^ (Dalzell 2008, p. 170)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 146)
- ^ Krantz, Susan E. (1995). "Reconsidering the Etymology of Bulldike". American Speech (American Speech, Vol. 70, No. 2) 70 (2): 217–221. doi:10.2307/455819. JSTOR 455819.
- ^ "Prisons and Prisoners". GLBTQ Encyclopedia. 2006. http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/prisons,2.html. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Dynes et al. 1990, p. 335)
- ^ (Dalzell 2008, p. 287)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 444)
- ^ a b (Green 2005, p. 440)
- ^ "lezzer / lesser / lesbo". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/l/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Dalzell 2008, p. 679)
- ^ Norton, Rictor (14 April 2000, updated 30 March 2003. The reference is to A. G. Busbequius, Travels into Turkey, English translation (London, 1744). The original book, published much earlier, was invariably cited whenever lesbianism was mentioned, e.g. William Walsh's A Dialogue Concerning Women (London, 1691) and in Martin Schurig's Muliebria Historico-Medica (1729).). ""The Game of Flats, 1749," Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook.". Sterling Publishing, ISBN 0304366366. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20080124111648/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/1749flat.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b c Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/t.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b c (Green 2005, p. 161)
- ^ a b c "Bum bandit". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/b/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/a.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 49)
- ^ "Botty Boy". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/b/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b c (Dalzell 2008)
- ^ "bent as a nine* pound/bob note". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/b/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 154)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 188)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 206)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 208)
- ^ "David Kato". The Economist. 15 Feb 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/18111806. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Spears, Richard A. (2001). Slang and euphemism: a dictionary of oaths, curses, insults, ethnic slurs, sexual slang and metaphor, drug talk, college lingo, and related matters (3 ed.). Signet. p. 59. ISBN 9780451203717. http://books.google.com/?id=3PXZAAAAMAAJ
- ^ a b (Green 2005, p. 226)
- ^ "(a right) Charlie". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/c/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ C Gutzmore, Casting the First Stone, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2004 – Taylor & Francis, Volume 6, Number 1, April 2004 , pp. 118–134(17)
- ^ Allan, Keith; Kate Burridge (2006, page 156). Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521819601. ISBN 9780521819602. http://books.google.com/?id=b2rCLYHjDMgC&pg=PA156&dq=%22Chi+Chi+Man%22+-blog+slang+gay. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "Chutney ferret". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/c/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b c d Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/c.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 232)
- ^ "fag". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/f/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 485)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 522)
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 549)
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/h.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "The Gaysian". http://www.thegaysian.com.
- ^ (Dalzell 2008, p. 1104)
- ^ "Iron (hoof)". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/i/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/j.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/k.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Partridge, Dalzell & Victor 2006, p. 1208)
- ^ "Limp wristed". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/l/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/m.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b Scott, Rebecca (1997). "A Brief Dictionary of Queer Slang and Culture". Rebecca Scott. Archived from the original on 2007-09-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20070915052419/http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4219/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "Nancy boy". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/n/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 598)
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/n.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Hirschhorn, Joel (July 19, 2005). "Oklahomo!: (Third Stage; 50 seats; $18 top)". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117927710?refcatid=33. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Kemp, A.C. (2002-2005). "Bad Baby Names". Slang City. http://www.slangcity.com/b_b_name.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "Pillow biter". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/p/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/q.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "''Dictionary of Sexual Terms''". Sex-lexis.com. http://www.sex-lexis.com/SYNONYMS/Tijuana%20queen. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ http://www.gaytoday.com/garchive/interview/120400in.htm
- ^ "Crossing Signals". Time magazine. September 8, 1975. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917786,00.html. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
- ^ a b Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/d.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/g.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "Sausage jockey". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/s/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ "Shirt lifter". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/s/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ a b "uphill / upstairs gardener". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/u/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Duckworth, Ted (1996-2007). "A Dictionary of Slang, Slanguistics". Peevish. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ (Dalzell & Victor 2007) page 706.
- ^ Originally US slang for male homosexuality. Earliest unambiguous use of "gay" for "homosexual" dates to the 1940s, extension to female homosexuality to the 1960s (OED).
- ^ "Ginger beer". London Slang. 24 September 2000. http://www.londonslang.com/db/g/. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ initialism coined within the "gay pride" movement in the 1990s.
- ^ Andreadis, 10, 51.
- ^ (Green 2005, p. 301); originally US slang, recorded from 1914 (OED).
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