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buggery mid-14c., "heresy," later "unnatural intercourse" with man or beast, "carnalis copula contra Naturam, & hoc vel per confusionem Specierum". See bugger.

bugger "sodomite," 1550s, earlier "heretic" (mid-14c.), from M.L. Bulgarus "a Bulgarian" (see Bulgaria), so called from Catholic bigoted notions of the sex lives of Eastern Orthodox Christians or of the sect of heretics that was prominent there 11c.

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Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of whatever Language, as are at present used in the English Tongue, with their Etymologies, Definition, &c., Second Edition, London, 1719:
Catamite, a Boy kept for Sodomy.
Ganymede, the Name of a Trojan Boy; now it commonly signifies any Boy loved for Carnal Abuse, or hired to be used contrary to Nature, to commit the Sin of Sodomy.
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Gomorrhean, (from Gomorrha,) Sodomite, a Buggerer.
Sodomite, a Person given to Sodomy or Buggery, the Sin of Sodom, the chief of the five Cities in Palestine, which was destroy'd by fire from Heaven; the Territory where it stood being swallowed up in the Brimstone Lake, commonly called the Dead Sea.

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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, (by Grose), London, 1785:
BACK GAMMON PLAYER, a sodomite.
INDORSER, a sodomite; to indorse with a cudgel, to drub or beat a man over the back with a stick, to lay cane upon Abel.
MOLLY, a miss Molly, an effeminate fellow, a sodomite.
WINDWARD PASSAGE, one who uses, or navigates the windward passage, a sodomite.

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A New Dictionary of All the Cant and Flash Languages, by Humphry Tristram Potter, London, n.d.:
MADGE, a sodomite.
MADGE CULL, a buggerer.
MADGE COVE, a keeper of a house for buggerers.

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Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary, by Benjamin Martin, London, 1799:
BUGGERY, sodomy, or sin against nature, as one man having copulation with another; or a man or woman with brute beast.
PATHIC, sub. a catamite, sodomite, or one who suffers himself to be abused contrary to nature.
SODOMITE (so called from the sin of Sodom) a buggerer, one that commits sodomy.
SODOMITICAL, of, or belonging to the sin of sodomy.
SODOMY, buggery, a sin of the flesh against nature; so called because committed by the inhabitants of Sodom.

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Blackguardiana: Dictionary of Rogues, Bawds, Pimps, Whores, Pickpockets, &/;c. &c., [by James Caulfield], London, [1795]:
BACK GAMMON PLAYER, a sodomite.
BUD SALLOGH, shitten p—ck [prick]; an Irish appellation for a sodomite.
INDORSER, a sodomite; to indorse with a cudgel, to drub or beat a man over the back with a stick, to lay cane upon Abel.
WINDWARD PASSAGE, one who uses, or navigates the windward passage, a sodomite.

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“Unnatural” sexual practices also formed part of negative stereotyping. The phrase “in the Italian fashion” early became established as a euphemism for sodomy. Benvenuto Cellini relates in his Autobiography (1558–1566) how his mistress and model Catarina unscrupulously brought a case against him in France, accusing him of using her “in the Italian fashion, that is to say, unnaturally like a sodomite.” (In the trial only the phrase “in the Italian way” was used.) Cellini angrily refuted the charge: “To this I answered that such was not the Italian way, and that on the contrary it must be the French way, since she knew all about it and not I” (1956, 249-51). Samuel Pepys noted in his diary entry for July 1, 1663: “Buggery is now almost grown as common amongst our gallants [smart society men] as in Italy.”

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