GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay.
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GAY (ADJ.)
* queen gay etymology *
Meang "male homosexual" (pecially a feme and ostentat one) is certaly rerd by 1924; probably as an alteratn or misunrstandg of quean, which is earlier this sense but had bee obscure. Gay (adj.
WAS “DRAMA QUEEN” A GAY SLANG EXPRSN ORIGALLY?
As a surname, Philipp Gay), om Old French gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charmg; forward, pert; light-lored" (12c. ; pare Old Spanish gayo, Portugue ga, Italian gajo, probably French loan-words). )) word gay by the 1890s had an overall tge of promiscuy — a gay hoe was a brothel.