List of LGBT slang terms

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The following is a list of LGBT slang terms. Some of the terms may be considered acceptable to LGBT peoples in a casual register when used among members within LGBT sexual orientated communities. Many imply masculinity in women (e.g., "bull dyke") or effeminacy in men. (e.g., "fairy").

Female

A member of the Dykes on Bikes motorcycle club
  • Bean flicker – "Likening the clitoris to a bean"[1]
  • Bulldog
  • Butch, butch-broad[2]
  • Carpet muncher (or rug muncher)[3]
  • Celesbian[4]
  • Clam Jouster
  • Dyke (variations: bull dyke, bull dagger (alternatively bulldagger, bulldicker,[5] from 1920s black American slang))[6][7][8]
  • Kitty puncher or pussy puncher with both kitty and pussy referring to a woman's vagina and puncher a variation on various derogatory terms for gay men like donut puncher et al.[11]
  • Lezzie/Lesbo/Leso (also lezzer/lesser) (abbreviation for lesbian)[12]
  • Muff Diver[13]
  • The Game of Flats (an 18th-century English term for sex between women)[14]
  • Todger dodger, todger meaning penis[15]
  • Vagetarian, portmanteau of the words Vagina and Vegetarian

Male

  • Anal assassin (United Kingdom) or anal astronaut[16]
  • Arse bandit[17]
  • Back door bandit[18]
  • Backgammon player (late 18th century Britain)[19]
  • Backshot artist
  • Balogna Pony


  • Batty boy (alternatively botty boy),[20] also batty man
  • Bear[21]
  • Bent, bentshot[22] or bender[23][24]
  • Bone smuggler[25]
  • Brown coalminer
  • Brownie king or brown piper[26]
  • Bufter, bufty (mainly Scottish) or booty buffer[16]
  • Bugger (from Buggery)
  • Bumder (mix of bummer and bender)
  • Bum bandit[18] or bun bandit[23]
  • Bum boy or bum chum,[27] also bum robber[28]
  • Bum-driller[29]
  • Bumhole engineer[30]
  • Butt pirate,[31] butt rider, butt pilot, or butt rustler[31]
  • Charlie (rhyming slang for Charlie Ronce which rhymes with ponce)[32]
  • Chi chi man (Jamaica and the Caribbean)[33][34]
  • Chutney ferret[35]
  • Cockstruction worker (referring to a gay man who is a construction worker)[36]
  • Cock jockey[37]
  • Cock knocker, cockknocker and cocknocker[37]
  • Cockpipe cosmonaut[38]
  • Crafty butcher[39]
  • Donut puncher/muncher[11]
  • Faggot,[40][41][42] Fag[43]
  • Fairy (common and acceptable for part of the 20th century)[44]
  • Finocchio (from Italy, meaning fennel)[45][46]
  • Flamer[47]
  • Flit[48]
  • Flower[49]
  • Friend of Dorothy
  • Fruit (also fruit loop, fruit packer, butt fruit)[50]
  • Fudge packer[23]
  • Harry hoofter, rhyming slang of poofter[51]
  • Gaysian, referring to a gay Asian[52]
  • Gym Bunny, often referring to a gay man who obsessively works out at the gym.
  • Iron (hoof) or iron hoofter (rhyming slang for poof)[53]
  • Jobby jabber (mainly Scottish with jobby referring to excrement)[54]
  • Knob jockey[55]
  • Leland - black guy that wears capris
  • Light in the loafers[56]
  • Light in the pants [56]
  • Light in the fedora[57]
  • Limp wristed[58]
  • Marmite miner[59]
  • Meat Masseuse[60]
  • Mary[61]
  • Nancy or nancy boy,[62] girlyboy[63] or nellie[64]
  • Oklahomo[65]
  • Pansy[66]
  • Payaso
  • Pillow biter[67] or mattress muncher,[59] referring to anal sex when one partner is face-down often into a pillow
  • Poof (variations include: poofter, pouf, poove, pooftah, pooff, puff) (U.K, Australia, New Zealand, California)[68]
  • Queen, princess and variations[69]
  • Bean queen (also taco queen or Salsa queen), gay man attracted to Hispanic men[61][70]
  • Brownie queen, obsolete slang for gay man interested in anal sex (used by men who disliked anal sex)[71]
  • Chicken queen, older gay man interested in younger or younger appearing men[72]
  • Curry queen, gay man attracted to Asian-Indian gay men[37]
  • Dinge queen, gay man attracted to black gay men (offensive use of "dinge" meaning black)[73]
  • Drag queen, gay man into cross-dressing for performance[73]
  • Grey queen, a gay person who works for the financial services industry (this term originates from the fact that in the 1950s, people who worked in this profession often wore grey flannel suits).[74]
  • Gym queen, gay man given to athletic development[75]
  • Madame Terry
  • Pissy queen, gay man perceived as fussy[68]
  • Potato queen, gay Asian man attracted mainly to white men.[76]
  • Rice queen, gay man attracted mainly to East Asian men.[76]
  • Scat queen, gay man into coprophilia[77]
  • Ring raider[16]
  • Sausage jockey (U.K)[78]
  • Shirt lifter[79]
  • Shit stabber[77]
  • Sod (from Sodomy)[80]
  • Turd burglar[15]
  • Twink, a young or young-looking gay man, with little body hair and a slender build[81]
  • Uphill/upstairs gardener, referring to the logistics of anal intercourse[82]
  • Woolly,[83] woofter and woolie woofter, a character from an Evening Standard cartoon and rhyming slang for poofter[84]
  • Viado/veado(portuguese,commonly used in Brazil)

Both

  • Ginger beer (rhyming slang for queer)[85]
  • Camp[37]
  • Molly and tommy: In 18th century England, the term molly was used for male homosexuals, implying effeminacy; Tommy, a slang term for a homosexual woman in use by 1781, may have been coined by analogy with molly. See Molly house.[86]
  • Tranny, considered a derogatory slur.[87][88]

See also

References

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