hobosexualとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hobosexual (plural hobosexuals)

1. A person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.
   • 1993, David A. Rudnitsky, Men Who Hate Themselves and the Women Who Agree with Them, pages 160–161:

     You’re a hobosexual — do you hear me! — a hobosexual! A man who can only get excited by women who are real tramps‼

   • 2019, Gerry Duggan, The Despicable Deadpool, page 237:

     Trust me. D-Man was homeless. Want to know how I know? I'm a hobosexual. Tramps float my boat.

2. (Should we delete this sense?) Senses punning on hobo having the synonym bum:
   1. A person whose sexual partner is a bum lay.
      • 1975, George Antonich, The Substitute Stud, page 74:

        “Oh well,” she snorted, “you'd probably turn out to be a hobosexual anyway.”
        A red glob of anger formed behind my eyeballs. “What do you mean, homosexual?”
        “I did not say homosexual,” she screeched, “I said hobosexual. You would probably make a bum lay!”

      • 2004, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Couples, page 40:

        “Your Honor,” the young man said, “I just can’t live with my wife anymore. She’s a hobosexual.”
        “Just one moment,” interrupted the judge. “Don’t you mean homosexual?”
        “I mean hobosexual. You see, my wife’s a bum lay.”

   2. A sex partner who is a bum.
      • 2004, Kuldeep Saluja, The Unofficial Joke Book of South Africa, page 48:

        “I never knew much about this boy’s father. He came through here, courted me and we got married. Soon afterwards I found out he was a hobosexual.”
        “You mean homosexual,” came the correction.
        “No, sir, I mean hobosexual. He was just a no-good, passionate bum.”

   3. One who fucks bums (anuses); an assfucker; in particular, a gay man.
      • 2010, R. Scott Bakker, Neuropath, chapter 12?:

        ‘Smart-ass, know-it-all, arrogant pricks, with their terrorist sympathies, their hobosexual neighbors — ’
        ‘Hobosexual?’
        ‘Bum fuckers! Fags!’

3. A person of an unkempt appearance.

   Antonym: metrosexual

   • 2010, Danita Carter, Murder in the Hamptons, page 277:

     “You mean the hobosexual looking dude? Looks like somebody shook him up in a bag, and then tossed him out?”
     Madison giggled. “That’s funny, where did you get hobosexual from?”
     “Judging from the looks of him, he surely isn’t meticulous about his looks like a metrosexual.”

4. A person who seeks out romantic relationships in order to secure housing.
   • 2024, Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had To Learn About Money, page 38:

     I've met people who jokingly referred to themselves as “hobosexual,” meaning they were so poor they would date whoever would let them stay at their house for the night.

関連する語

• hobosexuality

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005), “hobosexual”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1008.