Confirmed Bachelor

[Alice Faber]

Beverly Flanigan said:
>Neither have I.  Is this British, but not American, code?
>
>At 12:46 PM 6/22/01 -0700, James Smith wrote:
>>Maybe I'm just naive, but I've never associated
>>"bachelor" or "confirned bachelor" with homosexual.
>>
>>
>>--- Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:
>> > What is the history and geography of "bachelor" or
>> > "confirmed bachelor" as
>> > a euphemism for "male homosexual"?
>>
I think I've heard the expression used in contexts where it clearly
referred to "male homosexual", but I don't think it's conventionalized in
ways that expressions like "not the marrying kind" are.

Alice
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