Thesaurus:gay man

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)
• 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 (Japanese fiction)

• bender (UK, Ireland, slang)
• bottom
• catcher (US slang)
• pathic (literary)
• pillow-biter (slang)
• punk (US)
• shirt lifter (UK, Ireland, slang)
• uke (Japanese fiction)

• bitch (prison slang)
• catamite
• fagboy (slang)
• gayboy (slang)
• gunsel (dated slang)
• punk (obsolete)

• fairy (slang)
• fag (pejorative)
• faggot (US, Canada, 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, slang)
• poofter (UK, Ireland, 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.