Thesaurus:gay man
English
Noun
Sense: male homosexual
Synonyms
- batty boy (derog. Caribbean slang)
- batty man (derog. Caribbean slang)
- botter (slang)
- bum chum (UK slang)
- bumder (rare UK slang)
- bummer (UK slang)
- butt rider
- chi chi man (derog. Caribbean slang)
- confirmed bachelor (euphemism, oblique, ambiguous)
- cock gobbler (vulgar derogatory biased slang)
- dicklicker (vulgar derogatory biased slang)
- finocchio [⇒ thesaurus] (Italian slang)
- finook (Italian slang)
- friend of Dorothy (dated)
- funny boy (derogatory, slang)
- gay [⇒ thesaurus] (sometimes, offensive)
- gayboy (slang, sometimes derogatory)
- gaylord (slang)
- gaymo (slang, offensive)
- gaywad (slang, derogatory)
- homo [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- homosexual [⇒ thesaurus]
- invert [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete psychology)
- light stepper (rare)
- mary (US, slang)
- omi-palone (Polari)
- punk (derogatory AAVE)
- sausage jockey
- sausage rider
- shirt lifter (Australian slang)
- queer
- Uranian (literary, archaic)
- uranist (archaic)
Hyponyms
- Many of these hyponyms are also used generally for any gay person, without concern to their role etc.
- arse bandit (vulgar derog. UK, Ireland, slang)
- ass bandit (vulgar derog. US slang)
- assfucker (vulgar derog. slang)
- bugger (derogatory UK, Ireland, slang)
- buggerer (derogatory UK, Ireland, slang)
- buttfucker (vulgar derog. slang)
- butt pirate (derogatory slang)
- chutney ferret (vulgar derog. UK, Ireland, slang)
- fartknocker (vulgar derog. slang)
- fudge nudger (vulgar derog. slang)
- fudge packer [⇒ thesaurus] (vulgar derog. slang)
- jobbie jabber (vulgar derog. UK, Ireland, slang)
- nob jockey (derogatory UK, Ireland, slang)
- pitcher (US slang)
- poo pirate (vulgar derogatory slang)
- rear admiral (derogatory UK, Ireland, slang)
- rump ranger (vulgar derogatory slang)
- seme (Japanese fiction)
- shit packer (vulgar derogatory slang)
- shit-stabber (vulgar derogatory slang)
- sodomist
- sodomite
- tail gunner (derogatory UK, Ireland, slang)
- top
- turd burglar (vulgar derogatory slang)
- uphill gardener (vulgar derog. UK, Ireland, slang)
- uke [⇒ thesaurus] (Japanese fiction)
- bender (UK, Ireland, slang)
- bottom
- catcher (US slang)
- pathic (literary)
- pillow-biter (slang)
- punk (US)
- shirt lifter (UK, Ireland, slang)
- uke [⇒ thesaurus] (Japanese fiction)
- bitch (prison slang, vulgar)
- catamite
- fagboy (slang, vulgar)
- gayboy (slang)
- gunsel (dated slang)
- punk (obsolete)
- fairy (slang)
- fag (pejorative, vulgar)
- faggot (US, Canada, vulgar, usually derogatory)
- flamer (slang)
- fruit [⇒ thesaurus] (dated derog. slang)
- fruiter (derog. slang)
- horse's hoof (UK, Ireland, slang)
- nan (obsolete slang)
- nancy (derogatory slang)
- nancyboy (derogatory slang)
- nelly (derog. UK, Ireland, slang)
- ponce (derog. UK, Ireland, slang)
- poof (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory)
- poofter (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory)
- puff (UK, Ireland, slang)
- peter puffer (UK, Ireland, slang)
- queen (slang, sometimes derogatory)
- woofter (UK, Ireland, slang)
Coordinate terms
- gay woman [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
- homosexual person [⇒ thesaurus]
- man [⇒ thesaurus]
See also
- Thesaurus:homosexual
- Thesaurus:effeminate man
- Because oral sex deprecation and anti-gay bias both have long histories among humans, many of the words for "contemptible person" come from literal terms for anyone who performs oral sex or performs anal sex; they are listed at Thesaurus:jerk
Further reading
- “homosexual” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.