different between joey vs lesbian

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??o?.i/
• enPR: j??.?
• Rhymes: -??i

Etymology 1

Unknown. Older and more general sources state that joey comes from an Australian aboriginal language, but newer sources that focus on Australian English and aboriginal languages say the origin is unknown. The Australian National Dictionary includes a sense of “young possum” with citations predating the earliest “young kangaroo” citations.

Noun

joey (plural joeys)

1. The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
2. The shorter word whose letters can be found within a kangaroo word.
   • 1998, Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, The Word Circus (page 129)

     Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys.

   • 2005, Anu Garg, Another Word a Day (page 132)

     Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey.

3. (Britain, prison slang) A parcel smuggled in to an inmate.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “joey”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

From Joseph Grimaldi.

Noun

joey (plural joeys)

1. (theater, circus) A kind of clown.

Etymology 3

Noun

joey (plural joeys)

1. (Britain, military, slang) A member of the Royal Marines.

   Synonym: jolly

Etymology 4

From Joey Deacon, who was the focus of Blue Peter's 1981 charity campaign. The programme was aimed at children, who then picked the term up and used it as an insult.

Noun

joey (plural joeys)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive in Britain) A person with cerebral palsy.
2. (slang, derogatory, offensive in Britain) A stupid person.

See also

• spaz
• deacon
• deak

Anagrams

• Joye

English

Etymology

From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek ?????? (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?l?zbi.?n/

Adjective

lesbian (comparative more lesbian, superlative most lesbian)

1. (of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring mostly or exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.

2. (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two or more women; homosexual, gay.
   • 2011, Michael Bruce, Robert M. Stewart, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone ?ISBN, page 32:

     […] Madonna's infamous nationally televised lesbian kiss with Britney Spears […]

3. (especially of an institution or group) Intended for lesbians.
   • 2000, Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of lesbian and gay histories and cultures, volume 1, page 135:

     Some lesbians also felt comfortable in the entertainment clubs in the black section of the city; these clubs were not lesbian but were lesbian friendly.

Synonyms

• (of a woman: preferring women partners): dyke (usually offensive, but reclaimed by some lesbians), gay (preferred by some lesbians), homosexual (not specific to women)
• (between women; pertaining to women's homosexuality): dyke (usually offensive, but reclaimed by some lesbians), gay (preferred by some lesbians), homosexual (not specific to women)

Translations

Noun

lesbian (plural lesbians)

1. A homosexual woman, one who is mostly or exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
   • 1904, Jacobus X, Crossways of Sex: A Study in Eroto-pathology, volume 1, page 2

     There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lesbian.
2. (uncommon) A homosexual female animal.
   • 1979, Terry Hekker, Ever Since Adam and Eve (New York : Morrow):

     There was one recently that determined on an island off California 14 percent of the female sea gulls were lesbians (and we know that kind of thing would never go among Nantucket sea gulls).

   • 2014, George H Harrison, Birds Do It, Too: The Amazing Sex Life of Birds, Willow Creek Press (?ISBN):

     The only between this pair and others in the community is that they are among the 8 to 14 percent of the residents that are lesbians. After building their nest, the pair, two female western gulls, customarily produce twice as many eggs […]

Usage notes

• Many dictionaries define lesbian simply as a woman who is sexually (or romantically) attracted to other women. It especially refers to one who is attracted mostly or exclusively to other women. It is sometimes used in a way that includes other (e.g. bisexual) women who love women, or certain non-binary people.

Synonyms

• Sapphic, sapphist, gayelle
• (offensive) Amy-John, beaver eater, beanflicker, boondagger, bulldiker, bulldyker, carpet muncher, clam smacker, crack snacker, cunt-lapper, donut bumper, dyke, lesbianist, lezzer, lezzie, lezzo, rug muncher, scissor sister, todger dodger, vagitarian, clitorist
• See also Thesaurus:female homosexual

Hypernyms

• LGBT
• gay
• homosexual
• queer

Hyponyms

• korephile

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???????? (lesbiyan)
• ? Urdu: ??????

Translations

See also

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

References

Anagrams

• Nieblas, ansible, balines, bilanes

Interlingua

Adjective

lesbian (not comparable)

1. lesbian

Hypernyms

• homosexual

Derived terms

• lesbiana

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lesbien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /les.bi?an/

Adjective

lesbian m or n (feminine singular lesbian?, masculine plural lesbieni, feminine and neuter plural lesbiene)

1. lesbian

Declension

See also

• lesbian?