Gomorrahy

English edit

Etymology edit

Blend of Gomorrah +‎ sodomy. From 1967.

Noun edit

Gomorrahy (uncountable)

(rare, humorous) Unspecified sexual behavior regarded as immoral.
- 1967, Anders Swenson, “From the Desk of Radio Romany”, in Miskatonic University‎^[1], number 21, Walnut Creek, CA:
  a brief dedicatory sermon against the evils of gomorrahy in these perilous times of moral upset
- 1974 November 1, “Letters to the Princess”, in The Mighty News & World Report‎^[2], volume 2, number 3, Houston, TX: KPFT, page 7:
  He has been arrested several times in Dallas (for sodomy, gomorrahy, and failing to carry a weapon)
- 2008, Wilf Lunn, My Best Cellar: An Autobiography Up to the Age of Eleven:
  He punished Sodom because of it. The Sunday school teacher didn't even hint at what they got up to in Gomorrah, it was so bad. Even today I don't know what the act of 'Gomorrahy' is and how one got 'Gomorrahed'.
(rare, humorous) The insertion of a non-sexual extremity into a vagina or an anus, for sexual purposes.
- 1981, William O'Rourke, Idle hands: a novel‎^[3], New York: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 357:
  I heard lectures about the prostate, the joy or males everywhere. I joked: "I may condone Sodomy, but this would be Gomorrahy."
- 2003, “You May Now Enjoy Fisting Porn in Canada”, in Sewer News‎^[4], number 14, Vancouver, BC: Robin Bougie, page 2:
  explicit descriptions and depictions of gomorrahy-- to wit, vaginal fisting, anal fisting, and vaginal footing
(rare, humorous) Failure to maintain infrastructure.
- 1986 April 14, Bob Wiemer, “Gommorrah upon our messy lives”, in Daily Record‎^[5], Morristown, NJ, page A4:
  gomorrahy may manifest itself so blatantly in the public sphere because it is so well controlled in the private one.