单词 | tribade |
释义 | tribaden. Chiefly historical in later use. A woman who engages in sexual activity with other women; a lesbian. Cf. tribadism n.Sometimes spec. a woman who engages in sexual activity with another woman in which the genitals are stimulated by being rubbed against one another (cf. tribadism n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > female tribade1585 rubster1657 lesbian1732 Tommy1773 Sapphist1789 cunt-sucker1868 cunt lapper1916 lez1929 muff-diver1930 dyke1931 lesbo1931 lezzie?1939 freak1941 lezzo1941 Lizzie1949 lesbie1966 lezzer1966 rug muncher1981 Sapphic1985 carpet muncher1992 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xxii. f. 60 Euen as in times past wer the Tribades [Fr. Tribades], of the number wherof was Sapho the Lesbian. 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1128 Men of judgement and experience call these women Sahacut, that is to say, Rubbers or Ticklers, for they haue that cursed custome to tickle one another like vnto the Tribades. 1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France 580 That symptome call'd by Aegineta, Cereosis, or Cauda, which makes Tribades pass for Hermaprodites. 1732 W. King Toast ii. 67 She was therefore dignified with the Title of Chief of the Tribades or Lesbians. 1789 tr. G.-H. de R. de Mirabeau Secret Hist. Court Berlin II. 46 Madam de F** the famous Tribade..has dropped here as if from the clouds, under a borrowed name. ?1800 W. S. Delome Life & Death Maria Antoinette 20 Sophia Arnauld, first singer at the opera, and the first Tribade of the age. [Note] A woman fond of her own sex. 1815 Scourge Jan. 23 Did..no Tribades throw out lures for their own sex, in the Gallerie de Bois, as well in those days, as at the present moment? 1868 in tr. Martial Index Expurgatorius 53 A woman gives an account of an adventure with a tribade. 1908 tr. Gamiani i. 31 An old roué standing behind me, said loud enough for me to hear: ‘Pooh, she's a tribade, a Lesbian.’ 1968 Financial Times 27 Feb. 28/2 In the second play [sc. John Bowen's Trevor], the two tribades are done..with commendable restraint. 1991 Women 2 135 The ‘female homosexual’ in this history is variously a sodomite, using an artificial phallus; a tribade assuming the male penetrative, i.e. ‘on top’, position; a transvestite and fraudulent ‘husband’, and a ‘mannish invert’. 2005 L. Löb tr. O. Weininger Sex & Character iv. 45 If we ask our formula about the complement of the sexual invert, the reply will be: the most masculine woman, the lesbian, the tribade. Derivatives ˈtribady n. [compare French tribadie (1840), German Tribadie (1840 or earlier)] rare lesbianism; = tribadism n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > specifically between women Sapphism1795 tribadism1811 lesbianism1870 tribady1907 girl-on-girl1995 lady-love2003 1907 Amer. Anthropologist 9 390 The author..discussed the occurrence of pederasty and tribady among primitive tribes. 2000 F. Gray Gender, Rhetoric, & Print Culture v. 157 While men were being denounced and prosecuted for sodomy, lesbianism and tribady were openly acknowledged and tolerated at Court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585 |
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