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单词 homintern
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Hominternn.

Brit. /ˈhɒmᵻntəːn/, U.S. /ˈhɑmənˌtərn/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by blending. Etymons: homosexual adj., Comintern n.
Etymology: Blend of homosexual adj. and Comintern n.
Often humorous or ironic.
Usually with the. A supposed community or network of homosexual people operating covertly and exerting a controlling influence over the arts or another sphere of activity. Sometimes also more generally: the homosexual community.
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1937 M. Bowra Let. 11 Aug. (MS Bod. Berlin 246) f. 15 The most amusing [letters] are those from the 69th International or Homintern.
1946 W. H. Auden Table Talk 16 Nov. (1990) 46 Did you see that Dewey was bidding for the Homintern vote?
1956 Jrnl. Psychol. 42 222 He..there met distinguished members of the homosexual world, or ‘homintern’ as it is sometimes called.
1970 Harper's Mag. Sept. 40/1 Without..intending to hint at anything so grand as a homosexual mafia or Homintern, what appears clear..is that homosexuals have had a larger share in shaping the contour..of contemporary American life than anyone had probably imagined.
1984 J. G. Ballard in Paris Rev. Winter 148 I'm no member of the ‘homintern’, but a lifelong straight who prefers the company of women to most men.
1995 G. Vidal Palimpsest 104 By the 1950s, an all-out war was declared on the homintern's control of the arts.
2011 Independent Extra (Nexis) 28 Jan. 2 It's all part of the programme brilliantly co-ordinated by the Homintern to impose The Gay Agenda on Every Aspect of British Life.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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