Outbursts!. A.D. Peterkin

flops, foofs, fore-buttocks, fountain, fried eggs, front, front door, front parlour, frontage, fuckin’ tits, fun bags, garbonzos, gay deceivers, gazongas, gentleman’s pleasure, gib tesurbs, girls (the), glands, globes, goonas, gourds, grapefruits, grapes, groodies, growths, guavas, gubbs, hairy stubs, hammertons, hand-warmers, hands, hangers, hanging tits, headlights, heavers, hemispheres, hog jaws, hogans, honeydew melons, honeydews, honkers, hoofers, hooters, itty bitty titty/ies, jamboree bags, jellies, jellyfish, jelly-on-springs, Jersey cities, jiggle bosoms, jobbies, jubbies, jubes, jublies, jugs, juicy peaches, jujubes, kajoobies, kahunas, kettle-drums, knackers, knobs, knockers, lactoids, lemons, Lewis & Witties, loaves, lollies, lollos, love blobs, love bubbles, love buds, love pillows, lumps, lung nuts, lung warts, lungs, Mae Wests, magafi, mammaries, mammary glands, mammets, mams, Manchesters, mangoes, maracas,

      Photo: Dianne Whelan

      marshmallows, Mary Poppins, masob(s), massive mammaries, mazoomas, meat, meatballs, melons, memories, mezoomas, milk-bottles, milk-buckets, milk-glands, milk-jugs, milk-sacks, milk-shop, milk-walk, milkers, milkshakes, Milky Way (the), mole hills, mollicoes, mollies, moon balloons, mosquito bites, mounds, mount of lilies, mountains, muffins, murphies, nangles, nature’s fonts, nay-nays, niblets, nice handful, nice puppies, nice set, nick nacks, ninnies, ninny-jugs, nipple leather, no tits, norgies, norks, Norma Snockers, nubbies, nubs, nuggets, old saggy tits, oojahs, oomlaters, oranges, orbs, other parts, pair, pancakes, panters, pantry shelves, papayas, paps, peaches, peanuts, pears, pechitos, pellets, person (the), personalities, pimentos fritos, pimples, playground (the), poonts, porcelain spheres, potatoes, pretty lungs, pumpkins, pumps, pus glands, rack, ree-langers, rib cushions, rising beauties, rocks, sacks, sagging summer squash, saggy pig tits, scar-crossed prunes, scones, semiglobes, set of jugs, shirt potatoes, shit bags, shock absorbers, skin, slugs, snorbs, soft cadaby, squashy bits, spooters, stack(ed), stonkers, superdroopers, sweat glands, sweater meat, sweater treats, sweet rolls, sweetest valley, swingers, T&A, Tale of Two Cities, tamales, tatas, teacups, teats, tetinas, tetitas, them, thousand pities, threepenny bits, tired old tits, tiskies, tits, titties, titty, tomatoes, tnt, tonsils, top, top 'uns, top bollocks, top buttocks, top ones, top set, top-heavy, topballocks, topless, toraloorals, torpedo(s), towns and cities, tracy bits, treasure, treasure chest (the), tremblers, trey bits, tube-socks with a golf ball, turkeys, twin lovelies, twins (the), udders (the), ugly fat knockers, ugly jugs, upper deck (the), upper works (the), veiled twins, vital statistics, voos, wallopies, walnuts, wammers, wards, warmest valley (the), warts, waterbags, watermelons, whammers, white flowers, whites, willets, wrinkled tits, yams, yoinkahs

      Boobs: from bubs, an Elizabethan term for breasts. Bub also meant drink.

      Bristol Cities: rhymes with titties.

      BSH: “British standard handfuls.”

      Many breast terms refer to lactation: i.e., cream jugs, milkers, milk jugs.

      Gay deceivers: falsies.

      Gib tesurbs: an approximate backward phrase for big breasts.

      Mae Wests: refers to the well-known bosomy camp actress, but also rhymes with breasts.

      Not surprsingly food-related sexual slang is well-represented in the breast category: apples, coconuts, grapes, grapefruits, honeydew melons, oranges, peaches, lemons, watermelons.

      T&A: “tits and ass.”

      TNT: “two nifty tits.”

      Willets: Polari for breasts.

      Brothel, Male

      Anon. France, c. 1910. (Thomas Waugh Collection)

       See Gay Sex Venues

      Essayist and gay historian Rictor Norton remarks that the emergence of terms for male brothels and homosexuality in the early 18th century is related to the increase in survelliance and establishment of organized police forces.

      Benny house, birdcage, boy’s smoking house, bullring camp, call house, carsey, cock shop, crystal palace, flowershop, jag house, knishery, massage parlour, molly house, peg house, sauna club, sauna parlour, service station, show house, snake ranch, spintry, strip joint

      Knishery: American-Yiddish term for brothel referencing the meat-filled pastries.

      Butch

      The word butch is used by gay men and lesbians but has different meanings depending on the user and the subject. In a queer context, butch refers to a person or behaviour that presents as hyper-masculine. A woman who reads as butch reveals her queerness, whereas a man described as butch may be trying to conceal his queerness.

      Ape, baby butch, b-girl, blood, boi, bull, bullish, bull-dyke, butch daddy, caveman, chapstick lesbian, fagdyke, hard butch, he-man, honcho, jock, manly, mannish, masculine, mascularious, nail, rough, tough, tuff guy, soft butch, stone butch, “straight acting”, stud, tuff guy, ultra-butch, virile, wears boxer shorts

      Fagdyke: A butch who has sex with other butches.

      Buttocks

      Photo: Dianne Whelan

       see also Anus

      The buttocks, though among the largest muscles in the human body, are systematically ignored as entries in standard thesauri. Ass is an American derivation of the Old English slang word ass (for buttocks). Arse is the term used in the U.K.

      achers, acre, after part, ampersand, anatomy, archer, arm cheeks, arse ass, assteriors, BA, back, back parts, backland, backside, backway, balcony, basement, batti, beam, beautocks, behind, bim, bippy, biscuits, blind cupid, blot, bogy, bom, bombosity, bomsey, boo-boo, boody, bootie, booty, bosom of the pants, bottle and glass, bottom, botty, breech, broad beam, bubble butt, bucket, bum, bumbo, bummy, bump, bumper kit, bunchy, buns, buns aplenty, butt, butter, caboose, cake, camera obscura, can, canister set, catastrophe, cheeks, chips, chuff, clunes, cooler, corybungus, croup, crumpet, crupper, cul, culo, cupcakes, daily mail, date, derriere, differential, dinger, dish, dock, dokus, double jug, double juggs, drop, duff, dummock, duster, Dutch dumplings, English muffins, fanny, fat ass, fife and drum, flankey, flanks, fleshy part of the thigh, fud, fun, fundament, fundamental features, fundillo, gazeet, gazonga, gazooney, gluteal region, glutes, gluteus maximus, gluton, Greek side (the), hams, handlebars of love, hangover, hard-ass, haunch, haunches, heinie, hind, hind end, hinder end, hinder parts, hindside, hinterland, honey rolls, hootenanny, Hugh Jass, hunkers, jacksy pardy, jeer, jibs, jubilee, juff, jutland, kabedis, kazoo, keel, keester, keister, la-la, labonza, lard ass, latter end, limb, little Mary, luds, male tail, meat pillows, moon, mottob, mudflaps, nachas, nates, nockandro, North Pole, oil bags, paddies, parking place, parts behind, pod, poop, pooper, posteriors, postern, prat, prats, pressed ham, promontories, quoit, rass, rear, rear end, rosey, rounders, royal buns, rum, rumble seat, rumdadum, rump, rumpus, rumpus delecti, rusty dusty, saddle leather, scut, seat, seat of the pants, sess, set of pairs, sit-me-down, sit-upon, sitter, sitting room, smallers, sotting, south end, speedo boy, spread, squatter, stern, sugar cookies, Sunday face, tail, toby, tocks, tokus, toosh, tooshie, toute, tuches, tushie, twin bills, under-arm, underside, yeastful

      Bruce of Los Angeles, U.S., c. 1960. (Thomas Waugh Collection)

      BA: “bare ass.”

      “Baby Got Back” was a number 1 hit for Sir Mix-A-Lot in 1992.

      Bubble