looner
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortened form of balloon + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Noun edit
looner (plural looners)
- (informal) One who has a balloon fetish.
- 1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex:
- Many looners are terrified of talking about it in case they might be accused of being pederasts. They fear that a psychologist would just label them as "sick."
- 2019, Dennis DiClaudio, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, page 87:
- Looners (as they call themselves) can generally be divided into two categories, regardless of whether they prefer their balloon play with a partner or alone: poppers and non-poppers.