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catamite

(n): a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man
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about 2 hours ago noirling said:

Came across it in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

10 days ago madmouth said:

the etymology lends a bizarre significance to The Ganymede Club for gentlemen's personal gentlemen

7 months ago eeek said:

I was reading Mary Stewart's Merlin series and had to look up catamite. Now I have yet another word in my insult arsenal. Maybe cornhobble could also mean to slap a person in the fact with a word they don't know?

9 months ago garyth123 said:

I came across it in Anthony Burgess' novel Earthly Powers.

9 months ago hedgerows said:

'The word catamite is derived from the Latin catamitus, itself borrowed from the Etruscan catmite, a corruption of the Greek Ganymedes, the boy who was seduced by Zeus and became his beloved and cup-bearer in Greek mythology'. -- Wikipedia

I encountered this word in the Libertine play, 'The Farce of Sodom, or, the Quintessence of Debauchery'. In the list of 'dramatis personae', the character of Pockenello is described as 'Pimp, Catamite, and the King's Favourite'.

about 1 year ago Obikitty said:

I have a fun story for this word: my friend Kevin and I always used to IM insults at each other whenever we were online at the same time. I'd recently read a book where this word popped up (something nautical, I think, not that it matters) and so I sent it his way. He was, shocking as it may seem, very angry. He was a big egotistical know-it-all though, so it was probably more from the fact that he had to look it up, than the insult itself. Well, maybe it was a tie...

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

Second definition: WeirdNet!

about 1 year ago Shevek said:

Sounds like this is right up there with marmite.

over 2 years ago brtom said:

I asked him what he thought of the charge of pederasty brought against the bard. He lifted his hands and said: All we can say is that life ran very high in those days. Lovely!

Catamite.

-- The sense of beauty leads us astray, said beautifulinsadness Best to ugling Eglinton.

Joyce, Ulysses, 9

over 2 years ago Roetzel said:

Ogged was a prodigious catamite.

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