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pederast

Noun

ped=er=ast

WORDNET DICTIONARY

pederast(n = noun.person) child molester, paederast - a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner; Array

is a kind of degenerate, deviant, deviate, pervert

Derived form adjective pederastic₁

pederast, n. [Gr. paiderasth`s; pai^s, paido`s, a boy + 'era^n to love: cf. F. pédéraste.].

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite. [1913 Webster]

pederast, n. (also paederast) a man who performs pederasty.

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