sodomise
See also: sodomisé
English
Alternative forms
- sodomize (American)
Etymology
From sodomy + -ise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/
Audio (UK) (file)
Verb
sodomise (third-person singular simple present sodomises, present participle sodomising, simple past and past participle sodomised)
- (transitive) To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
- Synonym: bugger (vulgar)
- 1820, George Colman, The Rodiad, London: Cadell, p. 35,
- Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh,
- For ever tortured and for ever fresh;
- Cut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens,
- Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;
- 1999, Christopher Buckley, Little Green Men, New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 20,
- Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment.
- 2001, Richard Davenport-Hines, The Pursuite of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Chapter 5, p. 102,
- […] some men also found that it [amyl nitrite] relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised.
- 2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream Weaver, New York and London: The New Press, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86,
- There are only a few whispers here and there, and sometimes one or two who are so crazed by the experience that they talk—of torture […] but they don’t give details. […] Men too, sodomized with bottles; some, their testicles crushed, nor can they talk about it, except when the “craziness” overtakes them.
- (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
- 1975, Salman Rushdie, Grimus, St. Albans: Granada, 1977, Part 2, Chapter 39, p. 160,
- The donkey was bellowing because the Two-Time Kid […] was in the process of sodomizing it, and even for a docile donkey, there are limits.
- 1975, Salman Rushdie, Grimus, St. Albans: Granada, 1977, Part 2, Chapter 39, p. 160,
- (intransitive) To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
- 1641, anonymous, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London,
- Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit,
- More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet,
- Contrary to course, taking a male fiend
- To Sodomize with him, such was the mind
- Of this Lord Bishop,
- 1968, Colin Simpson, Greece: The Unclouded Eye, New York: Fielding Publications, Chapter 7, p. 229,
- Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together.
- 1641, anonymous, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London,
- (transitive, figurative) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
- 1980, Colin Smith, The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, 1981, Chapter 3, p. 19,
- Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed to avoid sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap into the centre lane.
- 1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18,
- ‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. […] ’
- 2002, Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, London: Vintage, 2003, p. 57,
- […] she looked around the empty rooms and faced, and knew, and ate, and got rightly sodomised by, her shame.
- 1980, Colin Smith, The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, 1981, Chapter 3, p. 19,
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
- 1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,”
- For if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne,
- It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein.
- 1864, “What will come of re-electing Lincoln,” The Old Guard, Volume 2, No. 9, September 1864, p. 199,
- The depravity of manners, the scandalous indecency and obscenity of Lincoln’s own daily conversation [i.e. lifestyle], seems to have fallen like a fatal epidemic upon the people. He has Sodomized the nation.
- 1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12,
- An inspiration that is infernal enough to organize a conspiracy to overthrow this government, for the purpose of establishing on its ruins the odious and sodomizing empire of Slavery, is bad enough, and mean enough, to be a cowardly assassin.
- 1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,”
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).
- 1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170,
- […] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;
- 1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142,
- […] daring impudence!
- Enough to make Heaven blush at the offence,
- And pour down thunder-bolts of indignation,
- To root for ever hence our Name and Nation,
- To puff us off like th’atoms of a feather,
- And Sodomize us into Hell together.
- 1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170,
Usage notes
- See usage notes at sodomy.
Derived terms
- sodomization
- sodomizer
Translations
to engage in anal sex
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to engage in sexual intercourse with an animal
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Anagrams
- diosmose, sodomies
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔ.dɔ.miz/
Verb
sodomise
- first/third-person singular present indicative of sodomiser
- 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage
- Il veut que le père l'encule, pendant qu'il sodomise le fils et la fille de cette homme.
- He wants the father to bugger him while he sodomizes the son and the daughter of this man.
- Il veut que le père l'encule, pendant qu'il sodomise le fils et la fille de cette homme.
- 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage
- inflection of sodomiser:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- sodomies