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Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob: Changes in the Language of the Male Sex Worker in New Zealand choose

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[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 65: If the police or queer bashers threatened him he might be forced to abdicate, or if he was arrested he was dethroned.
at abdicate, v.
[NZ] (con. 1960s) W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 72: In the early 1960s in New Zealand Vivian Vice, Nelly-law, Dolly Handbag, Alice, Dora-D, Hilda-Handcuff, Lily-lunchbox, Jennifer-Justice, Hilda Box-rot, Petunia Pig, Tilly Tight-twat, and Cherie Cunstable, were familiar.
at Alice (Blue Gown), n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: When a man kneeled to do this [i.e. fellate an anonymous partner] , he was described as doing church or kneeling at the altar.
at kneel at the altar, v.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 73: [T]ru-ana was an affirmation that meant, ‘I absolutely agree with you’, or ‘This is self evident’.
at tru-ana, excl.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: During sex a man made contact with Christ and the two apostles (penis and testicles) and a sex worker who limits himself to passive sex is known as an angel.
at angel, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 68: [A]n aspro described a male prostitute who worked the beats.
at ass pro (n.) under ass, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 70: An auntie was often a derogatory term for an older homosexual man who was interested in sex and whose approach to life was conservative.
at auntie, n.2
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 77: [S]ome contemporary male sex workers use the term bat material (pornography).
at bat material (n.) under bat, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 77: [S]ome contemporary male sex workers use the term batmat (a single mattress stored under a bed, that can be brought out to expand the site into a larger area when entertaining a client).
at batmat (n.) under bat, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 77: [S]ome contemporary male sex workers use the term batrag (a towel used for cleaning up after sex.
at bat rag (n.) under bat, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 60: In New Zealand, the earliest forms of male prostitution appear to have been conducted on beats that included either streets or public toilets and their imme¬diate environs.
at beat, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: [A] shilling was a beyonek, a half crown, a tosheroon, and a pound a ponte.
at bionc, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 59: [D]erogatory terms like pillow muncher (receptive partner in anal sex), poo-pusher (dominant partner in anal sex), and Morobar (in reference to the chocolate covered confectionary; the dominant partner in anal sex).
at pillow-biter, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: In a cubicle a charvering omee (male prostitute) might discreetly blag (pick up) a homie ajax (a man in a neighbouring stall).
at blagger (n.) under blag, v.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 62: Towns with more than one public toilet normally have at least one working bog, identified by personal descriptions or advertisements (bog bios or menus) written on walls.
at bog bio (n.) under bog, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 61: The bog trade refers to soliciting for sex in public toilets.
at bog trade (n.) under bog, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 62: Towns with more than one public toilet normally have at least one working bog, identified by personal descriptions or advertisements (bog bios or menus) written on walls.
at working bog (n.) under bog, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 62: If one is seeking money [i.e. in a public lavatory], one is generally working the bogs.
at work the bogs (v.) under bog, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 62: If one is looking for sex, one is doing the bogs.
at do the bogs (v.) under bog, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 65: In New Zealand a bog queen was a man who frequently cruised public toilets for sex.
at bog queen (n.) under bog, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: Polari words like bona (good), naff (bad or distasteful), cove (friend or mate), lucody (body) [...] appeared in wider gay slang.
at bona, adj.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 77: A boob [is] a Big Owner Operated Business. Today these technically constitute brothels and require licensing.
at BOOB, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 59: Boobslang from boob (prison) is an argot used among New Zealand prison inmates.
at boob, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 65: [W]aterfront boys [...] were a significant feature of male prostitution in New Zealand up until the early 1970s. They traditionally operated around ports sometimes forming liaisons with seamen that could last for a single visit or grow into longer-term relationships.
at waterfront boy, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 74: ‘I dnt bttm for knky fun eva. I do ws,f,tt, cb. nt n2 receiving pain’. Translated this means: I don’t receive anal sex. I offer water sex, fisting, tit torture, cock and ball torture, but I am not into receiving pain.
at c.b., n.1
[NZ] (con. 1940s/50s) W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 77: Cage [...] was recalled by a number of workers operating discreetly after the Second World War in New Zealand.
at cage, n.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 58: [T]he paper is concerned not with language about male prostitution but with language used by male prostitutes. In this regard there is an absence of terms like he-whore, callboy and hustler.
at call-boy (n.) under call, v.
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 59: Cant is the secret speech of the criminal underworld.
at cant, n.1
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 76: Originally cargo (car-go) was a street term. It described a prostitute who had sex in a client’s car. Thus one might hear a comment like, ‘I wouldn’t pick up that thing. It’s damaged car-go. It’s lucky to get one puncture a night’.
at cargo, n.3
[NZ] W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: In the carsey (toilet), a cubicle door was called a trade curtain.
at carsey, n.
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