Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a hermaphrodite; also as adj.

1697		Vanbrugh Provoked Wife IV iii: I heard Mr Constable say he believed she was little better than a mophrodite.
1742		Fielding Joseph Andrews (1954) I 51: You must [...] get a set of mophrodites to wait upon you.
1779		Nocturnal Revels I 65: I do not know whether it was a Woman or a Man, or a hairy Morphodite.
1889–90		Barrère & Leland Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant.
1909		J.W. Carr in ‘Word-List From Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:v 400: morphodite, n. Hermaphrodite.
1918		H. Simon ‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 (1933) 30/1: [...] 2. Morphadite, hermaphrodite.
1932		(con. 1910s) J.T. Farrell Young Lonigan in Studs Lonigan (1936) 69: ‘Lissen! Wilson’s a morphidite,’ Studs said.
1934		J.H. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 161: Did he know what a unique was? A unique, she told him, was a morphadite.
1937		‘Sex’ in Worktown Collection (Mass Observation) box 56: ‘I can’t tell what he is, I call him a Gene,Jack [her husband] calls him a Moxphrodite’.
1949		N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 87: You godamned hairy-ass morphodyke booze bums. [Ibid.] 227: Right square in the middle is what we call a murphydyke.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 141/2: Morph. 1. A hermaphrodite [...] Morphodite. (Erroneous for hermaphrodite) A hermaphrodite; (loosely in prison usage) a pederast; an oral sodo-mist.
1956		H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 174: I suppose morphodykes are likely to take it personally when people get married.
1962		T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 180: Morphadike, huh? Got both kinds of plumbing, huh?
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1970		F. Collymore Notes for Gloss. of Barbadian Dial. 77: Morphy. Hermaphrodite.
1992		(con. 1910s) F.M. Davis Livin’ the Blues 36: Anybody with both male and female characteristics was a morfydyke.

2. in weak use of sense 1, something mixed, thus adj. morfoditish.

1841		‘The Saucy Hell-Cat and the Indiaman’ in Lloyd’s Companion 19 Sept. 2/4: ‘’Tis a low-hulled, morfroditish, jiggamaree-rigg'd craft, sir — under a heavy press of sail’.
1861		Maidstone Teleg. 23 Nov. 6/1: [from N.Y. Tribune] First Down-Easter.— What sort of way is that for a Colonel to rig himself? Second Down-easter.— Morphodite rig, I guess. First Down-Easter.— Half General and Half Minister [...] Second Down-Easter.— Well, I said he was a morphodite.

3. a male homosexual.

1928		E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 258: Get up, yer self-destroying little morphrodite.
1950		see sense 1.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 30: morphodite (n.): [...] inaccurately is used to refer to a male homosexual and not the physical hermaphrodite.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 106: the stereotype homosexual [...] morphdite.