subs. (venery).—A catamite; an INGLE (q.v.). Also as verb = TO BUGGER (q.v.).

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  1548.  THOMAS, Ital. Dict., s.v. Zanzeri … BARDASSES.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Cinedo … a BARDARSH a buggring boy, a wanton boy, an ingle. Ibid., s.v. Cinedulare, to bugger, to BARDARSH, to ingle.

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  [?].  CAMER, Hist. Med., 171. Cato, among other things, hit him in the teeth with a certain BARDASH, whom he had enticed from Rome into France with promise of rich rewards. This womanly youth being at a feast, etc.

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  1678.  BUTLER, Hudibras, III. i. 278.

        In Raptures of Platonick Lashing,
And chaste Contemplative BARDASHING.

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  1721.  CENTLIVRE, The Platonick Lady, Epil. With your false Calves, BARDASH, and Fav’rites.

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