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List of LGBT slang terms

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List of LGBT slang terms

Female

  • Bean flicker – "Likening the clitoris to a bean"
  • Butch, butch-broad
  • Carpet muncher (or rug muncher)
  • Celesbian
  • Dyke (variations: bull dyke, bull dagger (alternatively bulldagger, bulldicker, from 1920s black American slang))
  • Diesel dyke
  • Drag dyke
  • Gillette Blade, a 1950s era term for bisexual women, whose sexuality cut both ways
  • Kiki, a term used primarily from the 1940s until the 1960s to indicate a lesbian who was not butch or femme and did not have a preference for either butch or femme partners
  • 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.
  • Lezzie/Lesbo/Leso (also lezzer/lesser) (abbreviation for lesbian)
  • Muff Diver
  • The Game of Flats (an 18th-century English term for sex between women)
  • Todger dodger, todger meaning penis
  • Tranny, a derogatory slur used against transgender women.
  • Male

  • Anal assassin (United Kingdom) or anal astronaut
  • Arse bandit
  • Back door bandit
  • Backgammon player (late 18th century Britain)
  • Batty boy (alternatively botty boy), also batty man
  • Bear
  • Bent, bentshot or bender
  • Bone smuggler
  • Brownie king or brown piper
  • Bufter, bufty (mainly Scottish) or booty buffer
  • Bugger (from Buggery)
  • Bum bandit or bun bandit
  • Bum boy or bum chum, also bum robber
  • Bum-driller
  • Bumhole engineer
  • Butt pirate, butt rider, butt pilot, or butt rustler
  • Charlie (rhyming slang for Charlie Ronce which rhymes with ponce)
  • Chi chi man (Jamaica and the Caribbean)
  • Chutney ferret
  • Cockstruction worker (referring to a gay man who is a construction worker)
  • Cock jockey
  • Cock knocker, cockknocker and cocknocker
  • Cockpipe cosmonaut
  • Crafty butcher
  • Daffodil or "daffy", a derogatory term
  • Donut puncher/muncher
  • Faggot, Fag
  • Fairy (common and acceptable for part of the 20th century)
  • Finocchio (from Italy, meaning fennel)
  • Flamer
  • Flit
  • Flower
  • Friend of Dorothy
  • Fruit (also fruit loop, fruit packer, butt fruit)
  • Fudge packer
  • Harry hoofter, rhyming slang of poofter
  • Gaysian, referring to a gay Asian
  • Gym Bunny, often referring to a gay man who obsessively works out at the gym.
  • Iron (hoof) or iron hoofter (rhyming slang for poof)
  • Jobby jabber (mainly Scottish with jobby referring to excrement)
  • Knob jockey
  • Light in the loafers
  • Light in the pants
  • Light in the fedora
  • Limp wristed
  • Marmite miner
  • Meat Masseuse
  • Mary
  • Muscle Mary (see Gym Bunny)
  • Nancy or nancy boy, girlyboy or nellie
  • Oklahomo
  • Pansy
  • Payaso
  • Pillow biter or mattress muncher, 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)
  • Queen, princess and variations
  • Bean queen (also taco queen or Salsa queen), gay man attracted to Hispanic men
  • Brownie queen, obsolete slang for gay man interested in anal sex (used by men who disliked anal sex)
  • Chicken queen, older gay man interested in younger or younger appearing men
  • Curry queen, gay man attracted to Asian-Indian gay men
  • Dinge queen, gay man attracted to black gay men (offensive use of "dinge" meaning black)
  • Drag queen, gay man into cross-dressing for performance
  • Grey queen, a gay person who works for the financial services industry (this term originates from the fact that in the 1950s, people who worked in this profession often wore grey flannel suits).
  • Gym queen, gay man given to athletic development
  • Madame Terry
  • Pissy queen, gay man perceived as fussy
  • Potato queen, gay Asian man attracted mainly to white men.
  • Rice queen, gay man attracted mainly to East Asian men.
  • Scat queen, gay man into coprophilia
  • Ring raider
  • Sausage jockey (U.K)
  • Shirt lifter
  • Shit stabber
  • Sod (from Sodomy)
  • Turd burglar
  • Twink, a young or young-looking gay man, with little body hair and a slender build
  • Uphill/upstairs gardener, referring to the logistics of anal intercourse
  • Woolly, woofter and woolie woofter, a character from an Evening Standard cartoon and rhyming slang for poofter
  • Gender-neutral

  • Ginger beer (rhyming slang for queer)
  • Camp
  • Molly and tommy: In 18th century England, the term molly was used for male homosexuals, implying effeminacy; Tommy, a slang term for a homosexual woman in use by 1781, may have been coined by analogy with molly. See Molly house.
  • References

    List of LGBT slang terms Wikipedia


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