Meanings
plural chutney ferrets
- UKderogatoryslangA homosexual man.
'They warned me off you and Lawrence because they reckoned you were a couple of chutney ferrets after my arse. […]
1997, Minette Walters, The Echo, Pan Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1632 more examples
"A chutney ferret. No one likes one of those and you shouldn't either. You ever find yourself with an arse-bandit like that you get your back to the wall and if he gives you any trouble you break his nose."
2000, Patrick Gale, Rough Music, Ballantine Book, published 2002, →ISBN, page 138“Jeremy? Hardly my friend. As you said yourself, an overbearing lackey, not to mention a flaming chutney ferret.”
2010, Joseph Alexander, Faded Acts of Love, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 140Synonyms: male homosexual
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA homosexual man.
Origin
From chutney (as a euphemism for excrement) + ferret (“diligent searcher”), a reference to anal sex.
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chutney ferret. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chutney%20ferret
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