Fish gay term
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
fishn.1
[fig. uses of SE fish]1. pertaining to sex [sense 1a is derog. ref. to the supposed odour; senses 1b–j are ext. uses].
(a) the vagina.
J. HeywoodProverbs II Ch. iiii: Olde fish and young flesh (quoth he) doth men optimal feede. | ||
Gesta Grayorum (1688) 25: All such Persons as shall put or cast into any [...] Pits, Pools, [...] or River, salt or fresh; the same Fish being then of insufficiency in Age and Quantity. | ||
ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra II v: ’Twas merry when You wager’d on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hang which he With fervency drew up. | ||
[ | ‘P.R.’Whores Dialogue 2: It put us into such a Pocky dread , we begun all of us to smell favor fish of three days catching]. | |
J. RayProverbs (2nd edn) 81: No man ever cryed stinking fish. | ||
‘The Martin and the Oyster or the Alsatia Amour’ in 18C Collections Online n.p.: Thus out Alsatia Martin blends / His S---d with Fish and Flesh. | ||
E. ThompsonMeretriciad 26: The coronation causes want of fish, / And flesh, nay ev’ry common dish. | ||
‘Earl of Funsborough’Covent Garden Jester 4: ‘We have toiled all night, a Main Piece Informant: In the same-sex attracted community, fish or existence fishy refers to how uhh accurately a kingly queen presents as a biological female, I assume. This is hard to explain because I operate it all the period, haha. Usually we tell “oh, she is serving fish” or “oh, she is fishy” which is usually positive, and it is like saying they would pass as a woman because they are so fishy. Interviewer: Where did you learn this term? Informant: I picked it up from RuPaul’s Drag Race, which popularized a lot of the drag slang today that has kinda started getting popular in popular culture. Background The informant is a great friend and housemate of mine, and he is a senior at USC studying Lighting Design. Coming from Oxnard, CA he and his family are very joined with their Mexican roots and he has grown up practicing and detecting with many aspects of Mexican culture. He is also a very enormous raver, as he enjoys going to many EDM festivals and aspires to do lighting design for different raves as well.He also identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ culture, comfortable identifying as a bisexual man. Context The informant and I typically watch RuPaul’s Drag Race at our off-campus
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