bowcat

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

bowcat (third-person singular simple present bowcats, present participle bowcatting, simple past and past participle bowcatted)

1. (vulgar, colloquial, Jamaica, UK, MLE, often derogatory) To perform cunnilingus.

   C'mon, cuz, I know you want to bowcat dem gyallies

   Ew, fuck no, blud, I don't bowcat!

Noun

bowcat (plural bowcats)

1. (Jamaica, UK, MLE, slang) A man who performs cunnilingus.
   • 2009, Suzanne LaFont, “Not Quite Redemption Song”, in Homophobias: Lust and loathing across time and space, page 113:

     Hold up yuh hand if yuh nuh like battyman, hold up yuh hand if yuh nuh suck pussy, yuh nuh bowcat (Petridis 2004).

   • 2015, Oscar Phoenix, This Hostage to Fortune, →ISBN:

     “I got an idea where your head was at. I'd prefer not to think about it, bowcat.”

   • 2016 April 20, Russell Smith, “Russell Smith: The future of English is in these teens' YouTube videos”, in The Globe and Mail:

     They are hosted by one teenager with a microphone (there are a series of these hosts: My favourite channels are Koomz and Ash and 2Man TV.) The host asks passing teenagers to bait out the biggest paigon they know, or the biggest bowcat or sket or sidechick or stunter or catfish.

   • 2018 May 5, Ellen Scott, “We need to get rid of the idea that giving a woman oral sex is unmanly”, in Metro:

     I remember days of guys angrily denying being a bowcat (do people still call each other bowcats?), of boys being called pussies for going down on their girlfriends while their girlfriends were called sluts for giving them head.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From Brazilian Portuguese boquete (“blowjob”). Compare the derivation of Russian мине́т (minét, “fellatio”) likewise inexplicably switching the sexual organ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔʊ̯ˌkʲat/
• Hyphenation: bow‧cat

Noun

bowcat (plural bowcat dem, quantified bowcat)

1. (vulgar, slang, often derogatory) A man who performs cunnilingus.
   • 2006, Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language (in English), →ISBN, page 17:

     “bowcat (bow-k'at): n. - one who engages in oral sex […] ”

Related terms

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