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Somdomite
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English
Noun
en sodomite.
en 1999 Andrew Prescott; Elizabeth M. Hallam; the British Library The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents 12 Somdomites and RevolutionariesOscar Wilde, the brilliant controversialist and playwright,
en 2004 Michigan Law Review 102 7-8 1476 A. Posing as Somdomites: John Lawrence and Tyron GarnerLittle is known publicly about the men whose arrest led to the most important gay civil rights decision in American history. According to the Houston attorney who handled their case at the trial court level, Mitchell Katine, "They're not out to be any more famous than they accidentally came to be."
2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University):
He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.
Usage notes
Used in reference to the misspelling by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, on a calling card left to Irish playwright Oscar Wilde.