Home › Words › L › lesbianatelesbianatelesbianate means to engage in lesbian sex.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, lesbianate ranks #33,270 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom lesbian + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Apparently coined in 1967 by Governor of Gibraltar Gerald Lathbury as a nonce word to rhyme with fifty-eight in a poem regarding the breeding of Barbary macaques in Gibraltar.verbTo engage in lesbian sex.e.g.“So long as we have Joe (born at Queen's Gate in fifty-eight) No female ape need pine Or lesbianate.” — 1967, Gerald Lathbury, quotee, “Poets aped in Gibraltar monkey business”, in BBC News:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).