pillow-biter
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[edit]From the trial of Jeremy Thorpe, where Norman Scott, indicating his reluctant participation in receptive homosexual activity, said "I just bit the pillow, I tried not to scream because I was frightened of waking Mrs Thorpe."[1]
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[edit]pillow-biter (plural pillow-biters)
- (derogatory or humorous) Synonym of bottom: A homosexual man who engages in passive anal sex.
- 2002, Mark A. Roeder, Keeper of Secrets:
- When I'd come in, he'd say stuff like ‘The little pillow-biter is home’ or ‘The little fairy has just flown in’.
- 2003, D. B. C. Pierre, Vernon God Little:
- ‘You a pillow-biter or what?’ ‘Hell no. I just think you're too young, that's all.’
- 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, A Portrait of the Artist As Australian: L'œuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries:
- ... a stuffed shirt, a raving pillow-biter or a looney old lezzo with a face like a half-sucked mango, ...
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