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dykey

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dyke 1  (dk)
n. & v.
Variant of dike1.

dyke 2  (dk) also dike
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

[Origin unknown.]

dykey adj.
Translations
dykey
adj (inf)lesbisch


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In Swimming Pool, a sly thriller with quicksilver slides into and out of fantasy, Rampling plays a famed, sharp-tongued British mystery writer with a haircut like an ex-nun's and lips drawn in perpetual disapproval; she's an embodiment of dykey photos of such real-life thriller writers as Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell.
Terry, who lives in Melbourne with partner Grazynka Ziemkiewicz, 26, says that on the whole, lesbian life in Australia "could be likened to lesbian life in many places around the world--generally less visible than the gay male scene and with a limited selection of distinctly dykey nightlife options available.
The Killing of Sister George (1968)--Viperish BBC executive Mercy Croft (Coral Browne) puts the moves on Childie (Susannah York), the girlfriend of dykey soap actress June Buckridge (Beryl Reid), in a sequence steamy enough to be cut by censors in various New England states in 1968.
 
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