GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay.
Contents:
- GAY (ADJ.)
- HOW TO SAY GAY LAT
- DO THE WORD FASCIST SHARE A ROOT WH THE ANTI-GAY SLUR F****T?
- THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
- ROOT WORD HOMO HOMOSEXUAL? IS THERE A WORD LIKE MISANDRY SPECIFILLY FOR GAY MEN? [CLOSED]
GAY (ADJ.)
* gay latin root *
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.
HOW TO SAY GAY LAT
The suggtn of immoraly the word n be traced back at least to the 1630s, if not to Chcer:But oure bed he was so sh and gay.
DO THE WORD FASCIST SHARE A ROOT WH THE ANTI-GAY SLUR F****T?
Whan that he wol han my bele slang meang "homosexual" (adj.
THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
) begs to appear psychologil wrg the late 1940s, evintly picked up om gay slang and not always easily distguished om the olr sense:After discharge A. He was not happy at the farm and went to a Wtern cy where he associated wh a homosexual crowd, beg "gay, " and wearg female cloth and makp. 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.
"A Gay Cat, " said he, "is a loafg laborer, who works maybe a week, gets his wag and vagabonds about huntg for another 'pick and shovel' job.
ROOT WORD HOMO HOMOSEXUAL? IS THERE A WORD LIKE MISANDRY SPECIFILLY FOR GAY MEN? [CLOSED]
Do you want to know where they got their moni (nickname) 'Gay Cat'?
See, Kid, ts sneak about and scratch immediately after chummg wh you and then get gay (h).