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catamite
[ kat-uh-mahyt ]
noun
- a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.
catamite
/ ˈ°ìæ³Ùəˌ³¾²¹Éª³Ù /
noun
- a boy kept for homosexual purposes
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of catamite1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
“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€
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.
"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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