英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈkætəmaɪt/
• ハイフネーション: cat‧a‧mite

名詞

catamite (plural catamites)

1. A boy or younger man in a homoerotic relationship with an older man.

   Synonyms: Ganymede, punk, gunsel; see also Thesaurus:male homosexual

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 7:

     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.

   • 2007 July 4, Mere Smith, “Heroes of the Republic”, in Rome, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Lyde:

     And what about your brother? – Is he to be a catamite?

派生語

• catamitism

動詞

catamite (third-person singular simple present catamites, present participle catamiting, simple past and past participle catamited)

1. To engage in a homoerotic relationship involving a boy and an older man.

参考

• pathic

参照

• “catamite, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.