youngman

See also: Youngman and young man

English

Etymology

From young +‎ man. Possible doublet of yeoman.

Noun

youngman (plural youngmen)

1. Obsolete form of young man.
2. (dated, gay slang) A younger lover or sexual partner.
   • 1967, Johnny Rechy, Numbers, page 247:

     There's a youngman staring at him. And now a man cruising which one? Johnny. In a hollow bowl created by the drooping branches of the trees, the man goes down on Johnny. Thirty-two! Johnny counts, waiting anxiously for the youngman also to touch his cock so he can count 33 in rapid succession.

   • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     I want him to love me, accept me—all of me. Let me be his youngman.

   • 1974 February 2, Eric Rofes, “For Leathermen Who Have Considered S & M”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 19:

     It is folly to deny that the scenario of this novel takes place nightly in bars throughout the country. At the Spike in New York, the Gold Coast in Chicago, Herbie's in Boston, the One Way in San Francisco, Mary's in Houston, the Washington DC Eagle . . . leather master meets and initiates youngman; handcuffs bind wrists; cops, corporals, and construction workers spit, piss and ejaculate on men seeking humiliation.

Usage notes

• In sense 1 now typically a scanno or an error by a non-native speaker.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:youngman.