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1661 Etymology dictionary, p. groom (v.).2
… accept sexual abuse" by 1989. Related: Groomed; grooming .
1662 Etymology dictionary, p. gunsel (n.).2
… sexual companion, especially by an older tramp," from Yiddish genzel, from German Gänslein "gosling, young goose" (see goose (n.)). The secondary, non-sexual meaning …
1663 Etymology dictionary, p. harlotry (n.).2
late 14c., "loose, crude, or obscene behavior; sexual immorality; ribald talk or jesting," from harlot + -ry .
1664 Etymology dictionary, p. haunt (v.).3
… "have sexual intercourse with." Use in reference to a spirit or ghost returning to the house where it had lived perhaps was in Proto-Germanic, but if so it was …
1665 Etymology dictionary, p. heat (n.).4
Meaning "sexual excitement in animals" is from 1768, especially of females, corresponding to rut in males. Meaning "trouble with the police" attested by 1920 …
1666 Etymology dictionary, p. hermaphrodism (n.).2
"physical condition of having both male and female sexual organs," 1799, from French hermaphrodisme (1750s); see hermaphrodite + -ism. Hermaphroditism is from 1807; hermaphrodeity is from 1610s.
1667 Etymology dictionary, p. heterosexual (adj.).2
… , different" + sexual. The noun is recorded by 1914 but was not in common use until the 1960s. Colloquial shortening hetero is attested from 1933.
1668 Etymology dictionary, p. homogamy (n.).2
1805, "condition of bearing flowers that do not differ sexually," from homo- (1) "same" + -gamy .
1669 Etymology dictionary, p. homophile (n.).2
1960, from homo- (2) "homosexual" + -phile. An attempt to coin a word for a homosexual person as part of a social group, rather than a sexual deviant.
1670 Etymology dictionary, p. homosexual (adj.).2
1892, in C.G. Chaddock's translation of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis," from German homosexual, homosexuale (by 1880, in Gustav Jäger), from Greek homos "same" (see homo- (1)) + Latin-based sexual .
1671 Etymology dictionary, p. homosexual (adj.).3
… to sexual intercourse with another man. Related: Homosexually .
1672 Etymology dictionary, p. horndog (n.).2
by 1995, from horn (n.) in the sexual sense (see horny ) + dog (n.).
1673 Etymology dictionary, p. horny (adj.).2
… "lustful, sexually aroused," was in use certainly by 1889, perhaps as early as 1863; it probably derives from the late 18c. slang expression to have the horn, suggestive …
1674 Etymology dictionary, p. horniness (n.).2
1885, "degree to which something is or resembles horn;" by 1957 in the "state of advanced sexual excitement" sense; from horny + -ness .
1675 Etymology dictionary, p. hot (adj.).4
… of sexual desire, lustful" is from c. 1500; the sense of "inciting desire" is 18c. Taste sense of "pungent, acrid, biting" is from 1540s. Sense of "exciting, remarkable …
1676 Etymology dictionary, p. hot pants (n.).2
"short-shorts," 1970, from hot (adj.) + pants (n.). Probably influenced by earlier sense of "sexual arousal" (1927).
1677 Etymology dictionary, p. hunk (n.1).2
… "attractive, sexually appealing man" is first attested 1945 in jive talk (in Australian slang, it is recorded from 1941).
1678 Etymology dictionary, p. impotence (n.).2
… (male) sexual potency, from c. 1500. The figurative senses of the word in Latin were "violence, fury, unbridled passion," via the notion of "want of self-restraining …
1679 Etymology dictionary, p. impotent (adj.).3
… in sexual power" (of males) is from mid-15c. Middle English also had a native term for this: Cunt-beaten (mid-15c.). The figurative sense in Latin was "without self-control …
1680 Etymology dictionary, p. incest (n.).2
… of sexual intercourse between near kindred," c. 1200, from Old French inceste "incest; lechery, fornication," and directly from Latin incestum "unchastity, impious …