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lesbianate

lesbianate verb: to engage in lesbian sex.

Verb

lesbianate (third-person singular simple present lesbianates, present participle lesbianating, simple past and past participle lesbianated)

  1. (rare) To engage in lesbian sex.
    • So long as we have Joe
      (born at Queen's Gate in fifty-eight)
      No female ape need pine
      Or lesbianate.1967, Gerald Lathbury, quotee, “Poets aped in Gibraltar monkey business”, in BBC News
    • Try to figure out ways you can 'lesbianate' in public. Can you get your finger down her pants at the movie theater?1987, JoAnn Loulan, Mariah Burton Nelson, Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other, Aunt Lute Books, →ISBN

Forms of lesbianate

third-person singular presentlesbianates
present participlelesbianating
past participlelesbianated
pastlesbianated

Origin of lesbianate

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.

Questions about lesbianate

What does lesbianate mean?
Lesbianate means to engage in lesbian sex.
What part of speech is lesbianate?
Lesbianate is a verb.
What is the past tense of lesbianate?
The past tense of lesbianate is lesbianated.

Words near lesbianate in the dictionary

  1. lesbian lizards
  2. lesbian rule
  3. lesbian rules
  4. lesbian until graduation
  5. lesbiana
  6. lesbianate
  7. lesbianated
  8. lesbianates
  9. lesbianating
  10. lesbiandom
  11. lesbianed

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