Pillow-biter
Origin
From the trial of Jeremy Thorpe, where Norman Scott, indicating his reluctant participation in receptive homosexual activity, said "I just bit the pillow, I tried not to scream because I was frightened of waking Mrs Thorpe."
Full definition of pillow-biter
Noun
pillow biter
(plural pillow-biters)- (pejorative or humorous) A homosexual man.
- 2002: Mark A. Roeder, Keeper of SecretsWhen I'd come in, he'd say stuff like ‘The little pillow-biter is home’ or ‘The little fairy has just flown in’.
- 2003: D. B. C. Pierre, Vernon God Little‘You a pillow-biter or what?’ ‘Hell no. I just think you're too young, that's all.’
- 2004: Paul Matthew St. Pierre, A Portrait of the Artist As Australian: L'Å“uvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries... a stuffed shirt, a raving pillow-biter or a looney old lezzo with a face like a half-sucked mango, ...