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"Scot Kamins" wrote in message
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"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"RF" wrote in message
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Twink (gay slang), a young or young-looking male homosexual.

Are you quite sure? J.R. Ackerley seems to suggest this
was the word for a respectable man of means who liked to
pick up guardsmen in Hyde Park.

As a (certainly not young) gay man, I can verify Bob's assertion. A
twink is a very young gay man, usually 18 - 25 or thereabouts. There's
often a somewhat negative connotation associated with its use (ie,
stupid & flightly).

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Scot Kamins

Yup....and it's been around for years. I'm thinking I first read
it in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid, but don't want to plow through
that read again.

Kris
straight femme

Can't you
Americans stop interfering with the language in this thoughtless manner?

I'm American and never even heard of that word before. But it does sound
like a word that some British sissy would invent.

On Sep 23, 12:24 pm, Scot Kamins wrote:
In article ,
"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"RF" wrote in message
roups.com...

Twink (gay slang), a young or young-looking male homosexual.

Are you quite sure? J.R. Ackerley seems to suggest this
was the word for a respectable man of means who liked to
pick up guardsmen in Hyde Park.

As a (certainly not young) gay man, I can verify Bob's assertion. A
twink is a very young gay man, usually 18 - 25 or thereabouts. There's
often a somewhat negative connotation associated with its use (ie,
stupid & flightly).

Scot, I copied the definition from Wikipedia.
I've heard the term used for at least 20 years (usually pejoratively)
though I have no idea how long it's been in use.