tapetten.adj.
/taˈpɛt/, U.S. /tæˈpɛt/, Canadian English /tæˈpet/ A. n.† 1. An implement used in massage for rolling over the skin. Obsolete. rare.
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1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) ii. 20 The palette, which is also called ferule, tapette, battoir,..is an instrument..ending at one extremity in a handle, and the other in a disc.
2. colloquial (usually derogatory and offensive). A man who is regarded as effeminate, a sissy. Also occasionally: a homosexual man. Now chiefly Canadian.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man
badlingeOE
milksopc1390
cockneyc1405
malkina1425
molla1425
weakling1526
tenderling1541
softling1543
niceling1549
woman-man1567
cocknel1570
effeminate1583
androgyne1587
meacock1590
mammaday1593
hermaphrodite1594
midwife1596
nimfadoro1600
night-sneaker1611
mock-mana1625
nan1670
she-man1675
petit maître1711
old woman1717
master-miss1754
Miss Molly1754
molly1785
squaw1805
mollycoddle1823
Miss Nancy1824
mollycot1826
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
ladyboy1857
girl1862
Mary Ann1868
sissy1879
milk1881
pretty-boy1881
nancy1888
poofter1889
Nancy Dawson1890
softie1895
puff1902
pussy1904
Lizzie1905
nance1910
quean1910
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
lily1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
queerie1933
palone1934
queenie1935
girlie-man1940
swish1941
puss1942
wonk1945
mother1947
candy-ass1953
twink1953
cream puff1958
pronk1959
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
pansy-ass1963
weeny1963
poofteroo1966
mo1968
shim1973
twinkie1977
woofter1977
cake boy1992
hermaphrodite-
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male
badlingeOE
nan1670
molly1708
Miss Molly1754
Miss Nancy1824
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
Mary Ann1868
pretty-boy1881
cocksucker1885
poofter1889
queer1894
fruit1895
fairy1896
homosexualist1898
puff1902
pussy1904
nance1910
quean1910
girl1912
faggot1913
mouser1914
queen1919
fag1921
gay boy1921
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
punk1933
queerie1933
gobbler1934
jocker1935
queenie1935
iron1936
freak1941
swish1941
flit1942
tonk1943
wonk1945
mother1947
fruitcake1952
Mary1953
twink1953
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
arse bandit1961
leather man1961
booty bandit1962
ginger beer1964
bummer1965
poofteroo1966
shirtlifter1966
battyman1967
dick-sucker1968
mo1968
a friend of Dorothy1972
shim1973
gaylord1976
twinkie1977
woofter1977
bender1986
knob jockey1989
batty boy1992
cake boy1992
1923 E. Hemingway Let. 6 Nov. (2013) II. 69 Canadians are all tapettes underneath all the big free open spaces.
1936 ‘R. West’ Thinking Reed xiii. 455 ‘It will make my room look as if I were a tapette!’ exclaimed Marc.
1955 N. Coward Diary 10 Nov. (2000) 291 What is to prevent these quivering little coloured tapettes in Kingston from giving any celebrated names that come into their minds?
1970 J. Stewart tr. Manifesto Front de Libération du Québec in Seven Years Terrorism 80/3 Beside them Remi Popol, the gasket, Drapeau, the dog, Bourassa, the sidekick of the Simards, and Trudeau, the ‘tapette’..are peanuts.
1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 29 July d1 Montreal! You should stop talking proud about your hockey team and start talking proud about your tapettes!
2004 S. Henighan Streets of Winter vi. 144 He was a goddamn tapette, inhaling the whiff of Suleyman's thighs, crazy to suck the boy's unbelievably elastic cock.
B. adj.
colloquial (usually derogatory and offensive). Effeminate, sissyish. Also occasionally, of a man: homosexual. Now rare.
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the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > effeminate man
womanisha1393
womanlike1440
feminatea1533
effeminate1549
womanlike1565
cockney1573
feminine1614
androgynous1628
muliebrious1652
petit maître1729
Miss Nancyish1855
gynaecomorphous1865
gynandrous1878
girly-girly1882
nancified1901
wimbly-wambly1929
tapette1930
queeny1936
female1940
poofed-up1964
pansy-ass1976
wussy1977
effete1981
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual
inverted1870
Uranian1883
homosexual1892
homogenic1894
camp1910
homosex1913
queer1914
homoerotic1915
homosexualist1920
homo1923
faggoty1928
tapette1930
fag1932
gay1934
so1937
same-sex1938
faggy1949
ginger beer1959
that waya1960
that way inclineda1960
ginger1965
minty1965
pink1972
leather1990
1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies ii. 22 My dear, he looks terribly tapette.
1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 174 You do look madly tapette when you're drunk.
1978 J. Sherwood Limericks of Lachasse xv. 181 My mother..wondered if you were perhaps tapette, but my brothers assured her that..you were perfectly masculine.
1999 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Apr. 16 He was inadvertently tapette... He had the complete identity of the young queen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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