Thesaurus:gay man

Thesaurus:gay man

THESAURUS

gay man

English

Synonyms

• batty boy (derog. Caribbean slang)

• batty man (derog. Caribbean slang)

• bum chum (UK slang)

• bumder (rare UK slang)

• bummer (UK slang)

• chi chi man (derog. Caribbean slang)

• finocchio (Italian slang)

• friend of Dorothy (dated)

• gayboy (slang, sometimes derogatory)

• gaylord (slang)

• homo    [WS] (slang)

• homosexual    [WS]

• invert    [WS] (obsolete psychology)

• mary (US slang)

• omi-palone (Polari)

• punk (derogatory AAVE)

• shirtlifter (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 &c.

• arse bandit (vulgar derog. UK slang)

• ass bandit (vulgar derog. US slang)

• assfucker (vulgar derog. slang)

• brownpipe engineer (derogatory UK slang)

• bugger (derogatory UK slang)

• buggerer (derogatory UK slang)

• buttfucker (vulgar derog. slang)

• butt pirate (derogatory slang)

• chutney ferret (vulgar derog. UK slang)

• fartknocker (vulgar derog. slang)

• fudge packer    [WS] (vulgar derog. slang)

• jobbie jabber (vulgar derog. UK slang)

• nob jockey (derogatory UK slang)

• pitcher (US slang)

• poo pirate (vulgar derogatory slang)

• rear admiral (derogatory UK slang)

• rump ranger (vulgar derogatory slang)

• seme (Japanese fiction)

• shit packer (vulgar derogatory slang)

• sodomist

• sodomite

• tail gunner (derogatory UK slang)

• top

• turd burglar (vulgar derogatory slang)

• uphill gardener (vulgar derog. UK slang)

• bender (UK slang)

• bottom

• catcher (US slang)

• pathic (literary)

• pillow-biter (slang)

• punk (US)

• shirt lifter (UK slang)

• uke (Japanese fiction)

• bitch (prison slang)

• catamite

• fagboy (slang)

• gayboy (slang)

• gunsel (dated slang)

• punk (obsolete)

• fairy (slang)

• fag (pejorative)

• faggot (usually derogatory)

• flamer (slang)

• fruit    [WS] (dated derog. slang)

• horse's hoof (UK slang)

• nan (obsolete slang)

• nancy (derogatory slang)

• nancyboy (derogatory slang)

• nelly (derog. UK slang)

• ponce (derog. UK slang)

• poof (UK slang)

• poofter (UK slang, derog. Austr. slang)

• puff (UK slang)

• peter puffer (UK slang)

• queen (slang, sometimes derogatory)

• woofter (UK slang)

Coordinate terms

• gay woman    [WS]

Hypernyms

• homosexual person    [WS]

• man    [WS]

See also

• Thesaurus:homosexual
• Thesaurus:effeminate man

Further reading

• “homosexual” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.