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Gomorrahy en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Gomorrah + sodomy. From 1967.

Meanings

1. (humorous, rare, uncountable) Unspecified sexual behavior regarded as immoral.
   • a brief dedicatory sermon against the evils of gomorrahy in these perilous times of moral upset 1967, Anders Swenson, “From the Desk of Radio Romany”, in Miskatonic University, number 21, Walnut Creek, CA:
   • He punished Sodom because of it. The Sunday school teacher didn't even hint at what they got up to in Gomorrah, it was so bad. Even today I don't know what the act of 'Gomorrahy' is and how one got 'Gomorrahed'. 2008, Wilf Lunn, My Best Cellar: An Autobiography Up to the Age of Eleven:
   • He has been arrested several times in Dallas (for sodomy, gomorrahy, and failing to carry a weapon) 1974 November 1, “Letters to the Princess”, in The Mighty News & World Report, volume 2, number 3, Houston, TX: KPFT, page 7:
2. (humorous, rare, uncountable) The insertion of a non-sexual extremity into a vagina or an anus, for sexual purposes.
   • I heard lectures about the prostate, the joy or males everywhere. I joked: "I may condone Sodomy, but this would be Gomorrahy." 1981, William O'Rourke, Idle hands: a novel, New York: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 357:
   • explicit descriptions and depictions of gomorrahy-- to wit, vaginal fisting, anal fisting, and vaginal footing 2003, “You May Now Enjoy Fisting Porn in Canada”, in Sewer News, number 14, Vancouver, BC: Robin Bougie, page 2:
3. (humorous, rare, uncountable) Failure to maintain infrastructure.
   • gomorrahy may manifest itself so blatantly in the public sphere because it is so well controlled in the private one. 1986 April 14, Bob Wiemer, “Gommorrah upon our messy lives”, in Daily Record, Morristown, NJ, page A4:

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