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GAY (ADJ.)
GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay. * gay etymology oed *
240]The associatn wh (male) homosexualy likely got a boost om the term gay t, ed as far back as 1893 Amerin English for "young hobo, " one who is new on the road, also one who sometim do jobs. Gay ts were severely and celly abed by "real" tramps and bums, who nsired them "an ferr orr of begs who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum — as were a jackal followg up the kg of beasts" [Prof.
In "Soclogy and Social Rearch" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay t" phenomenon not, "Homosexual practic are more mon than rare this group, " and gey t "homosexual boy" is attted Noel Erske's 1933 dictnary of "Unrworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Sttish variant of gay) "Dictnary of Amerin Slang" reports that gay (adj. See ‘Meang & e’ for fns, age, and quotatn 10occurrenc per ln words morn wrten English The earlit known e of the word homosexual is the 's earlit evince for homosexual is om 1891, the wrg of John Addgton Symonds, wrer and advote of sexual reform.
GAY
Defn of gay_1 adjective Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictnary. Meang, pronunciatn, picture, example sentenc, grammar, age not, synonyms and more. * gay etymology oed *
1891– Characterized by sexual or romantic attractn to, or sexual activy wh, people of the same sex; volvg or relatg to same-sex sire or sexual as an adjective and a noun, homosexual was for much of the first half of the 20th cent. While the term is still ed many formal ntexts, om the 1960s onwards gay beme preferred by many same-sex oriented men, who regard homosexual as too formal and clil, or as beg associated wh a history of the treatment of homosexualy as a medil or psychiatric ndn and the crimalizatn of sex between men many jurisdictns.
89 7212000It is probably rrect to speak of homosexual animals or animal homosexualy, bee virtually nothg is known about the gnive aspects of sexualy nonhuman speci.
Compare French homosexuel (1891, apparently after German), and German homosexuell, now the ual form (1878; 1898 also as noun) German adjective homosexual, along wh s noun e and several rivativ, was apparently first prted Das Gemeschädliche s § 143 s prssischen Strafgetzbuch (1869) 30, 54, and passim (by K. 1892) wh specific reference to male homosexualy are probably fluenced by folk-etymologil associatn of the first element wh classil Lat homo human beg, person, post-classil Lat also ‘adult male human beg’ (see homo n.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
by Jordan Redman Staff Wrer Do you know what the word gay really means? The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai,” meang “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meang impulsive. * gay etymology oed *
The word “gay” seems to have s origs around the 12th century England, rived om the Old French word ‘gai’, which turn was probably rived om a Germanic word, though that isn’t pletely known. Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostute and a gay man was someone who slept wh a lot of women (ironilly enough), often prostut.
In terms of the sexual meang of the word, a “gay man” no longer jt meant a man who had sex wh a lot of women, but now started to refer to men who had sex wh other men. As such, was mon amongst the gay muny to refer to one another as “gay” s before this was a monly known fn (reportedly homosexual men were llg one another gay as early as the 1920s). Sce then, gay, meang homosexual male, has steadily driven out all the other fns that have floated about through time and of urse also has gradually begun supplementg the word ‘lbian’ as referrg to women who are homosexual.
MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
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Bee even mentng someone was a homosexual was so offensive at the time England, people who were thought to be gay were referred to as “sporty” wh girls and “artistic” for boys.
GAY DICTNARY
Vis our Gay Dictnary to know how to say gay 1500 different ways. It is part of our LGBT dictnary, wh more than 2200 entri om 68 languag ... * gay etymology oed *
[only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry. [not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay.