Lesbianate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To engage in lesbian sex. rare

    "So long as we have Joe (born at Queen's Gate in fifty-eight) No female ape need pine Or lesbianate."

Example

More examples

"So long as we have Joe (born at Queen's Gate in fifty-eight) No female ape need pine Or lesbianate."

Etymology

From lesbian + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Apparently coined in 1967 by Governor of Gibraltar Gerald Lathbury as a nonce word to rhyme with fifty-eight in a poem regarding the breeding of Barbary macaques in Gibraltar.

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