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pillow-biter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From the trial of Jeremy Thorpe, where Norman Scott, indicating his reluctant participation in receptive homosexual activity, stated I just bit the pillow, I tried not to scream because I was frightened of waking Mrs Thorpe.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous, slang) Synonym of bottom (“homosexual man who engages in passive anal sex”).
   • When I'd come in, he'd say stuff like ‘The little pillow-biter is home’ or ‘The little fairy has just flown in’. 2002, Mark A. Roeder, Keeper of Secrets:
   • […] a stuffed shirt, a raving pillow-biter or a looney old lezzo with a face like a half-sucked mango, […] 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, A Portrait of the Artist As Australian: L'œuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries:
   • ‘You a pillow-biter or what?’ ‘Hell no. I just think you're too young, that's all.’ 2003, D. B. C. Pierre, Vernon God Little:

Forms

Relateds

homosexual

Synonyms

bottom

Translations (4)

sv kuddbitare (Translations) · he נושך כריות (Translations) · es muerdealmohadas (Translations) · es bardaje (Translations)