List of LGBT slang terms

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]
  • Vin Diesel dyke^[9]
  • Drag dyke^[10]
• 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

• Madame Terry
• 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]
• 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]

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

• LGBT slang
• List of ethnic slurs
• List of religious slurs

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