house, sauna club, sauna parlour, service station, show house, snake ranch, spintry, strip joint
Knishery: American-Yiddish term for brothel referencing the meat-filled pastries.
Butch
The word butch is used by gay men and lesbians but has different meanings depending on the user and the subject. In a queer context, butch refers to a person or behaviour that presents as hyper-masculine. A woman who reads as butch reveals her queerness, whereas a man described as butch may be trying to conceal his queerness.
Ape, baby butch, b-girl, blood, boi, bull, bullish, bull-dyke, butch daddy, caveman, chapstick lesbian, fagdyke, hard butch, he-man, honcho, jock, manly, mannish, masculine, mascularious, nail, rough, tough, tuff guy, soft butch, stone butch, “straight acting”, stud, tuff guy, ultra-butch, virile, wears boxer shorts
Fagdyke: A butch who has sex with other butches.
Buttocks
Photo: Dianne Whelan
see also Anus
The buttocks, though among the largest muscles in the human body, are systematically ignored as entries in standard thesauri. Ass is an American derivation of the Old English slang word ass (for buttocks). Arse is the term used in the U.K.
achers, acre, after part, ampersand, anatomy, archer, arm cheeks, arse ass, assteriors, BA, back, back parts, backland, backside, backway, balcony, basement, batti, beam, beautocks, behind, bim, bippy, biscuits, blind cupid, blot, bogy, bom, bombosity, bomsey, boo-boo, boody, bootie, booty, bosom of the pants, bottle and glass, bottom, botty, breech, broad beam, bubble butt, bucket, bum, bumbo, bummy, bump, bumper kit, bunchy, buns, buns aplenty, butt, butter, caboose, cake, camera obscura, can, canister set, catastrophe, cheeks, chips, chuff, clunes, cooler, corybungus, croup, crumpet, crupper, cul, culo, cupcakes, daily mail, date, derriere, differential, dinger, dish, dock, dokus, double jug, double juggs, drop, duff, dummock, duster, Dutch dumplings, English muffins, fanny, fat ass, fife and drum, flankey, flanks, fleshy part of the thigh, fud, fun, fundament, fundamental features, fundillo, gazeet, gazonga, gazooney, gluteal region, glutes, gluteus maximus, gluton, Greek side (the), hams, handlebars of love, hangover, hard-ass, haunch, haunches, heinie, hind, hind end, hinder end, hinder parts, hindside, hinterland, honey rolls, hootenanny, Hugh Jass, hunkers, jacksy pardy, jeer, jibs, jubilee, juff, jutland, kabedis, kazoo, keel, keester, keister, la-la, labonza, lard ass, latter end, limb, little Mary, luds, male tail, meat pillows, moon, mottob, mudflaps, nachas, nates, nockandro, North Pole, oil bags, paddies, parking place, parts behind, pod, poop, pooper, posteriors, postern, prat, prats, pressed ham, promontories, quoit, rass, rear, rear end, rosey, rounders, royal buns, rum, rumble seat, rumdadum, rump, rumpus, rumpus delecti, rusty dusty, saddle leather, scut, seat, seat of the pants, sess, set of pairs, sit-me-down, sit-upon, sitter, sitting room, smallers, sotting, south end, speedo boy, spread, squatter, stern, sugar cookies, Sunday face, tail, toby, tocks, tokus, toosh, tooshie, toute, tuches, tushie, twin bills, under-arm, underside, yeastful
Bruce of Los Angeles, U.S., c. 1960. (Thomas Waugh Collection)
BA: “bare ass.”
“Baby Got Back” was a number 1 hit for Sir Mix-A-Lot in 1992.
Bubble butt: modern-day American term for a perfectly rounded ass.
Bum: Middle English term for buttocks; from the Dutch bom.
Corybungus: Polari for butt.
Daily mail: rhymes with tail.
Heinie: 20th-century American term for hind end.
Glutes: jock abbreviation for gluteus, from the Greek gloutos for buttock.
Jacksy: a contemporary British slang term for anus.
Mottob: an example of slang derived from backward spelling.
Tokus (also tochas, tockus): from Yiddish for buttocks.
Yeastful: an oblique reference to buns.
To expose your buttocks: do a moon job; flash your butt/bum; hang a moon; moon; red eye.
Caress
John Barrington, U.K., c. 1940’s (Thomas Waugh Collection)
see also Fondle, Kiss
bear-hug, belly-crunch, bill, cajole, canoodle, clasp, cling, clutch, cock pluck, coo, court, court and spark, cradle, cuddle, dally, dinkydiddle, draw close, embrace, get physical, goose, grope, guzzle, hold, huddle, hug, lovey-dovey, lumber, make love, make love to, peck and neck, rock,
slake, slap and tickle, soothe, spoon, squeeze, stroke, take into your arms, tickle, touch
Spoon: dates back to the 19th century; suggested both foreplay and affectionate touching. In modern-day usage, refers to two people embracing while facing the same direction, as in bed.
Casual Sex Partner/One-Night Stand
Alley affair, alley queen, fling, fuck buddy, oncer, onetimer
Cheat on (to)
see also Promiscuous, Monogamy
burn, cat around, chippy on, chibby chase, cruise, dilly-dally, dog on, double-cross, engage in an extra-marital affair, engage in extracurricular activities, fan your ass, fan your pussy, fish, flag, flirt, fool around, give up rhythm, go on a fishing expedition, hit and run, horse around, jack around, jazz around, monkey about, perv about, philander, play around, play checkers, play games with, play the field, player (to be a), put horns on, put it about, shoot the thrill, step out on, tease, tomcat, trick out, two-time, vampire
Philander: from the Greek philandros, meaning loving men.
Vampire: a gay man who steals others’ partners.
Chest (Male)
Kris Studio, c. 1960. (Thomas Waugh Collection)
see also Muscular, Breasts, Nipples
A muscular male chest is a new Western aesthetic preoccupation. Many new terms will likely emerge as gay men renew their memberships at the Cult of Fitness.
Bitch-tits, boy-breast, boy-boobs, breast, brisket, disco tits, epilation mountains, gym tits, pecky, pecoramas, pecs, pecs for days, pectorals, ribs, thorax, tit freak/queen, tits, tittier, torso, upper trunk
Bitch
