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catamite

[ kat-uh-mahyt ]

noun

  1. a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.


catamite

/ ˈ°ìæ³Ùəˌ³¾²¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. a boy kept for homosexual purposes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of catamite1

1585–95; < Latin °ä²¹³Ù²¹³¾Ä«³Ù³Ü²õ < Etruscan Catmite < Greek ³Ò²¹²Ô²â³¾á¸—dŧ²õ Ganymede
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of catamite1

C16: from Latin °ä²¹³Ù²¹³¾Ä«³Ù³Ü²õ, variant of ³Ò²¹²Ô²â³¾Å§»åŧ²õ Ganymede 1
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Johnson was fired from his first job, at the Times of London, for making up a quote about Edward II’s catamite lover and attributing it to his godfather, the Oxford historian Colin Lucas.

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Nehlen also recounted a Twitter fight between himself and John Podhoretz, and he laughed at how the editor of Commentary had called him a “catamite,†a word he had to look up in the dictionary.

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“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.â€

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He quoted an Oxford historian, Colin Lucas, giving the colourful detail that the monarch "enjoyed a reign of dissolution with his catamite, Piers Gaveston" at the palace.

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"It was the afternoon of my 81st birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

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