flaming adj. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...queen . [ 1826 letter in Duberman ‘Writhing Bedfellows’ in Journal Homosexuality ( 1980 / 81 ) VI Fall/Winter 88: The flaming excess of your lustful appetite may drag down the vengeance of a supernal power.] 1964 Lavender Lex. n.p.: flaming faggot :– See Faggot. 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 16: flaming queen (n.): The homosexual male who uses cosmetics, hair sets, flamboyant clothes and, in general, displays feminism at all times to emphasize his homosexuality. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 73: stereotype effeminate homosexual […]...
live one n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...Loan ‘The Squirrel’ in Score by Innings ( 2004 ) 341: I wanted to go out and grab a few lives ones; I wanted to pay better salaries. 6 ( gay ) a generous rich client for a prostitute. 1941 G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants . 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 28: live one (n.): The homosexual ‘client’ of a male prostitute. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 200: short-term sex partner […] live one (especially used of one who pays). 1986–7 Maledicta IX 146: Many of his [i.e. G. Legman 's] other...
gay adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...by offering his mouth or anus in return. 1949 ‘ Swasarnt Nerf ’ et al. Gay Girl's Guide 10: gay trade : Male who wants to be ‘blown’ but will not reciprocate. He may be otherwise gay himself, or bisexual, and will kiss, pet, and perform other expected requirements. 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 18: gay trade (n.): A homosexual who performs only the inserter part of the sex act; he is the party who is fellated, or he is the pedicator during intercourse. ▪ SE in slang uses ▪ In compounds gay deceivers ( n. ) [pun on original use, a deceitful...
pick up v. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... 55: pick up pennies to be fucked for a mere pittance. pick up the soap for ( v. ) [the posture necessarily adopted for both activities] ( gay ) to permit oneself to be sodomized. 1941 G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants . 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 35: pick up the soap ( for ) (v.): To allow pedication. Also, the term ‘To play drop the soap’ is still heard aboard ships of the U.S. Navy, meaning to engage in pedication. (Slang.). 1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 148: pick up the soap (fr...
mutton n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...nurseries of wickedness, the nests of mutton tuggers, the dens of formall droanes. mutton walk ( n. ) 1 the saloon at the Drury Lane Theatre, Covent Garden; often as the Mutton Walk . 1821 ‘ An Amateur ’ Real Life in London I 211: Mutton Walk — A flash term recently adopted to denominate the Saloon. 1859, 1860 Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 1873 Sl. Dict. 233: Mutton walk the saloon at Drury Lane Theatre. A vulgar appellation applied to this place early in the last century, still in use in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden, which was...
box n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Smith We Pointed Them North ( 2003 ) 80: In that kind of theatres [sic] they used to have curtained boxes running all around inside, and box rustlers was what they called the girls that worked them. 1941 (con. 1876 ) FWP Guide WA 145: The women did their song and dance on the stage and then, in costumes that […] were considered the extreme of indecency, mingled with the customers in the boxes, encouraging the sale of liquors. The women became known as box-rustlers, and box-rustling theaters sprang up all over the west [DARE]. 1951 (con. c. 1900 ) ...
face n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Long ( 2002 ) 115: I have met every kind of a crook there is […] can-opener artists and sometimes face artists. 1935 A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 37/1: Face artist , a sexual pervert. 1941 G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants . 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 15: face artist (n.): A fellator. (Slang.). 1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular . face cream ( n. ) [ cream n. 1 (1)] ( US gay ) semen, esp. when ejaculated onto a fellator's face. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular . 1988 H. Max Gay...
bite v. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...find succor in the smoke of blue sage (hashishi) cigarettes. 2001 ONDCP Street Terms 3: Bite one's lips — To smoke marijuana. bite one's nails ( v. ) ( US gay ) for one homosexual man to use mutually recognizable coded gestures to indicate his interest to another. 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 4: biting their nails (v., n.): Coded gestures used by homosexuals in public places signifying to other homosexuals that they are interested in meeting them. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular . bite one's name in ( v. ) to drink heavily. 1835 G....
old adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...crust that forms on vintage port] a genial drinker. 1867 M. Lemon Golden Fetters II 264: Mr. Clendon did not call Mr. Barnard ‘old cock,’ ‘old fellow,’ or ‘old beeswing’. old Bess/Bessy/Bet/Betsey/Betsy ( n. ) see betsy n. old blind bob ( n. ) the penis. 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 34: Penis […] old blind bob. 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words . old Boney ( n. ) death. 1772 G. Stevens ‘The Jolly Soul’ in Songs Comic and Satyrical 64: If Master Death thrusts himself into my room, / They tell me, he always...
Bibliography, Selected Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...(including Vanessa Cooke, Janice Honeyman and Danny Keogh This Is For Keeps 1983; Barney Simon Hey, Listen … 1974) —— (ed.) Theatre One; New South African Drama (Johannesburg/London 1978) (including Herman C. Bosman Street-Women 1978; Pieter-Dirk Uys Paradise is Closing Down 1977) —— (ed.) Theatre Two ; New South African Drama (Johannesburg 1981) (including Christopher Hope Ducktails 1977; Junction Avenue Theatre Co. Randlords and Rotgut 1974) Gray, Thomas The Candidate (London 1780) Graziano, Rocky Somebody Up There Likes Me (New York...
Hornchurch Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
...Horns, possibly a reference to the local leather currying industry, which had either a bull's or a stag's head with horns as its guild sign. Leather remained at the heart of Hornchurch's commercial life until the 19th century, with shoemakers, tanners and dealers in animal skins. During the 1920s and 1930s the whole of Hornchurch became a dormitory suburb; its population increasing threefold during this period. The Queen's Theatre moved from a converted cinema to purpose-built premises on Billet Lane in 1975 , and has become one of outer London's most...
