Talk:bite me
It's a little disingenuous not to mention that the phrase refers to fellatio. Some decades ago it was in use as a taunt to impute homosexuality to unpopular males in locker rooms, etc. The apparent invitation to sexual violence might be seen as a precursor to punk lingo.
Due to general acceptance of insults based on alleged sexual preferences, "bite me" passed on to the general lexicon--as, for instance, did "bugger"--while the population at large maintained or feigned ignorance of its true meaning.
cf. "eat my shorts," in The Simpsons.
- Not really an interjection, it's better classed as a verb, isn't it? Mglovesfun (talk) 00:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Women say this too, I wouldnt classify it as purely homosexual. There's also, of course, "bite my ass!" Lollipop (talk) 20:02, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
- I don't know why Mglovesfun wrote what he did. Of course, it's not homosexual. I've heard it for many years from straight people, men and women. It's about the same as eat my shorts. There's also fuck me, which sounds like it should be homosexual, but it's not. —Stephen (Talk) 07:30, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense "call/contact me". An anon tried to remove it as vandalism; I see that the anon who added it may have misunderstood, because they referenced a quote that actually attests to sense #1. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 00:16, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
"Etymology"[edit]
We dont seem to have etymology sections for phrases like this in general .... should we remove the section? I posted above as Lollipop that I dont think it can be seen as just a coded reference to fellatio because women also say it and because the clearly non-phallic bite my ass is reasonably common. Though sometimes people say things that are ironically absurd. If it is possible I would be interested in tracking down how this phrase got started, but perhaps it is not possible ... a phrase like this could have come into fashion and fallen out again many times over the recorded history of English, and who's to say which use is the "current" one? —Soap— 22:22, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
Also, it occurred to me that nobody says bite my dick ... well, Im sure some people do, but its not common. I think it would be taken literally and even if some men might find that pleasurable I think most would not, and that anyone saying "bite my dick" would just be laughed at. —Soap— 00:20, 24 March 2020 (UTC)