bardash

noun

bar·​dash

(ˈ)bär¦dash

plural -es

: a homosexual male : catamite

Word History

Etymology

Middle French bardache, from Old Italian dialect bardascia youth, homosexual, from Arabic bardaj slave, from Persian bardah

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