English words for '(offensive) Homosexuality.'
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noun
- (uncountable, possibly offensive) Homosexuality.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
- (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
- a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
- a strange attitude or habit
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
verb
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- work hard
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A gay man, especially an effeminate one.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- (loosely, highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A non-heterosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
- (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered effeminate.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
- (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
- (mythology) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.
- A legendary Chinese immortal.
- An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm.
- A member of two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.
- (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
- (derogatory) An effeminate man or boy.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
- large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
- A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
- A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
adj
verb
noun
intj
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- thick cushion used as a seat
- (historical) A headdress for women popular in 18th century France.
- Alternative form of puff
- A high hair style for women consisting of a roll or pad of hair, worn up.
- A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
- Alternative form of poof.
- (dressmaking) Part of an item of clothing consisting of gathered fabric in a bunch.
- A ball of fabric (such as nylon monofilament netting) used for washing (as an alternative to a flannel, washcloth, sponge, etc.).
- A low cushioned seat with no back; a padded footstool.
intj
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
verb
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
adj
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
verb
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
- (slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
adv
adj
prep_phrase
- (adverbial) In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner
- (adjectival) Of the same, a similar, that particular kind.
- (adverbial) suddenly; unexpectedly.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Used at the end of a sentence to emphasize a resemblance to something, reinforcing a previous instance of the preposition like (or a similar term).
- (interjectional) Used to indicate agreement with another speaker's statement.
name
- Homosexuality.
- Gout.
- Football (soccer) hooliganism.
- Gambling.
- Depression (especially suicidal).
- Syphilis.
- Laziness; low motivation.
- Bronchitis.
- Haemophilia.
- Sweating sickness.
- Hypochondria.
- Poor industrial relations and the resulting economic weakness.
- Tuberculosis.
- Rickets.
- Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation.
noun
adj
adv
num
symbol
prep_phrase
adj
- Being undetectably homosexual.
- (of a car) Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
- (transgender slang) Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
- At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
- (more generally) Unreadable; undetectable.
- At a speed that cannot be measured.
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- a person having kinship with another or others
- a social unit living together
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- primary social group; parents and children
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
adj
noun
noun
- prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality
- (strictly) Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
- (by extension, loosely) Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.
adj
- (attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
noun
- (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
- (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- Rainbow trout.
- (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
- an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
- an illusory hope
verb
- (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
noun
- (uncountable, possibly offensive) Homosexuality.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
- (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
- a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
- a strange attitude or habit
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
verb
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- work hard
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A gay man, especially an effeminate one.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- (loosely, highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A non-heterosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
- (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered effeminate.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
- (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
- (mythology) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.
- A legendary Chinese immortal.
- An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm.
- A member of two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.
- (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
- (derogatory) An effeminate man or boy.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
- large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
- A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
- A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
adj
verb
noun
intj
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- thick cushion used as a seat
- (historical) A headdress for women popular in 18th century France.
- Alternative form of puff
- A high hair style for women consisting of a roll or pad of hair, worn up.
- A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
- Alternative form of poof.
- (dressmaking) Part of an item of clothing consisting of gathered fabric in a bunch.
- A ball of fabric (such as nylon monofilament netting) used for washing (as an alternative to a flannel, washcloth, sponge, etc.).
- A low cushioned seat with no back; a padded footstool.
intj
verb
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
verb
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
adj
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
verb
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
- (slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
adv
noun
adj
adv
num
symbol
noun
- prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality
- (strictly) Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
- (by extension, loosely) Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.
adj
prep_phrase
- (adverbial) In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner
- (adjectival) Of the same, a similar, that particular kind.
- (adverbial) suddenly; unexpectedly.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Used at the end of a sentence to emphasize a resemblance to something, reinforcing a previous instance of the preposition like (or a similar term).
- (interjectional) Used to indicate agreement with another speaker's statement.
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
adj
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- (loosely) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
verb
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
- (slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
adv
adj
- Being undetectably homosexual.
- (of a car) Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
- (transgender slang) Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
- At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
- (more generally) Unreadable; undetectable.
- At a speed that cannot be measured.
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- a person having kinship with another or others
- a social unit living together
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- primary social group; parents and children
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
adj
noun
adj
- (attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
noun
- (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
- (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- Rainbow trout.
- (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
- an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
- an illusory hope
verb
- (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.