| 释义 |
‖ tapette, n. (and a.)|tapɛt|
[F. tapette pederast, homosexual (slang), f. taper to tap, hit + -ette, fem. suffix.]
A passive male homosexual; an effeminate man or ‘pansy’. Also as adj.
1930E. Waugh Vile Bodies ii. 22 My dear, he looks terribly tapette. 1936‘R. West’ Thinking Reed xiii. 455 ‘It will make my room look as if I were a tapette!’ exclaimed Marc. 1949A. Wilson Wrong Set 174 She replied ‘..you do look madly tapette when you're drunk.’ 1960J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) ii. i. 183 Yves had lived by his wits in the streets of Paris, as a semi-tapette, and as a rat d'hôtel. 1978J. Sherwood Limericks of Lachasse xv. 181 My mother..wondered if you were perhaps tapette, but my brothers assured her that..you were perfectly masculine. |