Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #11

(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)

11.) Foin
-intransitive verb

a.) To thrust with a pointed weapon.*

b.) To lunge or thrust, as in fencing.

[Origin: Middle English foinen, from foin, a thrust, from Old French foine, pitchfork, or from Anglo-French fuin, 14th century, from Latin, fuscina, three-pronged fish spear or trident.]

*Surely a little swordplay with some lively foining between boys of all ages can yield a good time.

Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #10

(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)

10.) Ithyphallic
-adjective

a.) Of or relating to the phallus carried in the ancient festival of Bacchus.

b.) Having the penis erect, usually used of figures in art within graphic and sculptural representations.*

c.) Lascivious; salacious; obscene; lewd.

[Origin: Late Latin ithyphallicus, from Greek ithyphallikos, from ithyphallos erect phallus, from ithys straight + phallos phallus, 1795]

*An ideally beautiful masculine physique in ancient Greece had well developed musculature especially in the buttocks and thighs along with a rather small, delicate sex member. The satyrs and centaurs with their huge bestial pudendae were intentionally depicted as ithyphallic in order to show contrast with the potential for mankind to display a certain elegant, rational modesty.

Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #9

(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)

9.) Effluvium
-noun singular

1.) A usually invisible noxious or evil-smelling exhalation from decaying matter.*

2.) Shedding, especially of hair.

3.) An impalpable emanation; an aura.

[Origin: Latin, from effluere, to flow out.]

*A noisome effect quite familiar to folk of old, but one which we will now go to great lengths to mask and avoid, especially at inopportune moments.

Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #8

(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)

8.) Maudlin
-adjective

a.) Effusively or tearfully sentimental.*

b.) Foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness.

[Origin: 1500-1510; special use of Maudlin, from Middle English Maudelen, Greek Magdaléné, an alteration of Mary Magdalene, who was frequently depicted as a tearful penitent present at Christ’s crucifixion.]

*Some boys do cry. A lot. We can’t help it. We really feel it, you know.