catamite

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Then the catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly from, nor in any other way avoid.

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  • He was of medium height, his hair short and tightly curled, his nose hooked, his complexion dark You are a Persian Phrygian, sire How long have you served Elyphion Since he bought me eleven years ago, when I was twelve How did you serve him At first I was his catamite - one of them. —  David Gemmell - (Lion of Macedon 01) Lion Of Macedon v1.0 (1990).htm
  • In other words, he might have been an intern / catamite / etc in some parallel, opaque world of activist politics. —  CANNONFIRE
  • Hotspur: Yeah, and her idiot husband bows like a catamite to the Saudi despot mysogynist, King Abdullah. —  New England Republican
  • Not to be confused with "catamite", which is a small boy kept for unnatural purposes. —  Latest Articles
  • Hannitized: [quote] Oh eunuchized the beardless catamite of the "freudian projections" and severe reluctance bordering on inability ... andophiroxia: Aw, thought you were gonna ignore me. —  Say Anything
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  1. Latin catamītus, from Catamītus, Ganymede, from Etruscan Catmite, from Greek Ganumēdēs.

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  1. from French catamite, from Latin catamitus, so called from Catamitus, -meitus, corrupt form of Ganymedes: see Ganymede.
 

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/ˈkætəmaɪt/
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