bardash, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bardash n.

also bardach, bardascio, bordachio

[orig., as Fr. bardache, an effeminate male homosexual, the partner of the ‘masculine’ bougre; ult. Gk ba?as (badas), synonym for kinaidos, the passive partner of a homosexual couple (the term is found in Hesychius); this may be underpinned by Arabic bardaj, a slave ]

a male homosexual; thus as v., to sodomize, to bugger.

1598		Florio Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Cinédo [...] a bardarsh buggring boy, a wanton boy, an ingle. Cinedulare, to bugger, to bardarsh, to ingle.
1632		W. Lithgow Rare Adventures 335: A Spanish Souldier and a Maltezen boy [were] burnt in ashes, for the publick profession of Sodomy, and long or night, there were above a hundred Bardassoes, whoorish boyes that fled away to Sicilie in a Galleyot, for feare of fire but never one Bugeron stirred, being few or none there free of it.
1653		Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk III 67: Go, get thee gone [...] to the devil, and be buggered, filthy bardachio that thou art, by some Albanian, for a steeplecrowned hat.
a.1660		‘New Ballad on the Old Parliament’ in Rump (1662) 33: I prethee be not too rash, With Atheism to court the Devil, You’r too bold to be his Bardash.
1672		J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 47: Fair Ganimed great Joves Bordachio.
1675		C. Cotton Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 193: Marry thy Bardach [...] Go hug thy Chit.
1678		S. Butler Hudibras Pt III canto 2 line 278: Raptures of Platonick Lashing, And chast Contemplative bardashing.
1683		R. Dixon Canidia v 86: Catamits, Bardashes, Orphean Boys, / Lustful Trinkets and Toys.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Pantagruelian Prognostications (1927) II 694: Bardachoes [...] he-whores and sodomites.
1706		S. Centlivre Platonic Lady Epilogue for Mrs. Bracegirdle: Sirs, don’t you as nice appear, / With your false Calves, Bardash, and Favrite’s here?
1822		R. Nares Gloss. (1888) I 54: bardash. An unnatural paramour. Bardaschio, Ital.
1850		E.V. Kenealy Goethe: a New Pantomime 191: Gulligut, boor, filthard, bardash!
1890		‘Neaniskos’ Priapeia Ep. xxxv 34: Thou shalt be bardashed, thief [...] I will both sodomise and irrumate thee.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 106: Enfant d’honneur = a bardash; an ingle.