Talk:back gammon player

back gammon two words? RJFJR 13:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Seems to be a pun. SemperBlotto 13:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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back gammon player

As with much of Category:Classic 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, this looks fishy. --Quadcont (talk) 21:12, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

It can certainly be found in a lot of other dictionaries of slang. I found one very clear usage:

• 2009, Rita Monaldi, Francesco Sorti, Secretum, page 623:

  They always have boys with them because they're all back-gammon players, which is what we call sodomites.

and one quote that is probably of that meaning (as in this context, mentioning the game seems odd):

• 1808, A Letter to His Majesty: The Bandogs:

  Sir Thomas found it convenient to believe Doctor Nooth's assertion, and therefore packed up his baggage and effects to sail for England, on board the Triumph, with his military friend and back gammon player, Colonel Willington; this gentleman, while on shore, laughed at the absurdity of fearing the infection, but the moment he was on board, his opinion altered, it shifted with the wind, he began to insinuate, that it might be communicable, and in consequence, Sir George Barlow absolutely refused to permit Sir Thomas, or his baggage, to have a passage in the Triumph: Sir George acted very prudently, and Sir Thomas staid from necessity.

but most of what I find refers to the game of backgammon. Kiwima (talk) 19:45, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

On a related note, the following text explains the bit of verse quoted below as referring to sodomy:

• 2016, Humphrey Davies, Yusuf al-Shirbini, Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume Two, →ISBN:

  Two slender-waisted creatures, One girl, one boy, At backgammon played. Said she, "I am a turtledove!" "Hush!" said I. "You are the moon above!"

Kiwima (talk) 19:56, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

There are now three cites. RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:10, 3 June 2017 (UTC)