lesbianate

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verb

To engage in lesbian sex.

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Meanings

verblesbianate (third-person singular simple present lesbianates, present participle lesbianating, simple past and past participle lesbianated)

present singular third person lesbianates · participle present lesbianating · participle past lesbianated · past lesbianated

  1. rareTo engage in lesbian sex.

    So long as we have Joe (born at Queen's Gate in fifty-eight) No female ape need pine Or lesbianate.

    1967, Gerald Lathbury, quotee, “Poets aped in Gibraltar monkey business”, in BBC News
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    Try to figure out ways you can 'lesbianate' in public. Can you get your finger down her pants at the movie theater?

    1987, JoAnn Loulan, Mariah Burton Nelson, Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other, Aunt Lute Books, →ISBN

    So, a check was deposited into her bank account at the first of every month. SSI. $660, and she could write & paint and lesbianate to her hearts content, possessing enviable free time

    2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 156

Origin

From lesbian + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Apparently coined in 1967 by Governor of Gibraltar Gerald Lathbury as a nonce word to rhyme with fifty-eight in a poem regarding the breeding of Barbary macaques in Gibraltar.

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Cite this entry
APA

lesbianate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lesbianate

MLA

“lesbianate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lesbianate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lesbianate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lesbianate.

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