Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #67
February 22, 2009
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
67.) Havier
-noun singular
a.) A castrated deer.
b.) A stag that has been gelded when young.*
[Origin: Formerly haver most likely from the Old English healf or "half."]
*Being thus emasculated when young, haviers (who, like does, have no horns) become the effeminate eunuchs of the cervidae family.
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #66
February 15, 2009
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
66.) Tit-faggots
-noun plural
a.) Small, short bundles of sticks for kindling.*
[Origin: From a combination of the Old English tit meaning "small" and the Middle English fagot, or “bundle.”]
*The meaning of the classic slur for members of the tribe in contemporary derogatory nomenclature, faggot, may derive from the its older meaning as “an old or unpleasant woman” (possibly the likes of which would be carrying bundles of sticks), but may also derive from its sense as a bundle of sticks used to burn poor victims at the stake.
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #65
February 8, 2009
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
65.) Iulan
-adjective
a.) Of the first growth of the beard.*
[Origin: from the Greek ioulos meaning "downy-bearded."]
*Here we have the tenuous moment of metamorphosis from eromenos to erastes in a single word.
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #64
February 1, 2009
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
64.) Woodwose
-noun singular
a.) The legendary hairy wild man of the woods.*
[Origin: From the Old English wuduwasa, or "wild man of the woods."]
*The savage, hirsute, wild man of the woods, who appears frequently in early medieval art, literature, and even as a Germanic heraldry symbol as late as the 16th century, still lurks as a possibility in our present-day minds, the testimony to which more recent speculation about the Sasquatch or Yeti bear.
