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Contents:

• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• GAY (ADJ.)
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

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THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'gay.

The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai, ” meang “full of joy or mirth.

MEANG OF GAY – LEARNER’S DICTNARY

For centuri, gay was ed monly speech and lerature to mean happy, reee, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meang until the 1600s.

At that time the meang of gay as reee evolved to imply that a person was unrtraed by morals and prone to nce and promiscuy. A prostute might have been scribed as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man. “Gay hoe” was monly ed to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was ed as a mon name for certa plac of entertament.

DEFN OF 'GAY'

In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man.

This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship. In 1951, gay appeared the Oxford English Dictnary for the first time as slang for homosexual, but was most likely ed this way “unrground” at least 30 years earlier.

GAY (ADJ.)

” This le (ad-libbed by Grant) n be terpreted to mean that he was behavg a happy-go-lucky or lighthearted way but is accepted by many as the first e of gay to mean homosexual a mastream movie. When gay is ed today to mean stupid or unsirable ( has only been ed this way sce the 1990s), rri wh a history of negative judgment and rigid ias about who or what is acceptable.

As part of the curriculum, Unheard Voic featur a sectn on the word “gay, ” s history and how to e the word properly.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

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GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Gay suggts a lightns of heart or livels of mood that is openly manifted: when hearts were young and gay. Merry is often terchangeable wh gay: a merry disposn; a merry party; suggts, even more than the latter, nvivial animated enjoyment.

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NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

A gay woman was a prostute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay hoe a brothel.

This sexual world clud homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the early 1900s.

World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselv, first as an adjective and later.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

Today, the noun often signat only a male homosexual: gays and lbians. Homosexual as a noun is sometim ed only reference to a maleMost material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Pengu Random Hoe LLC. 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.

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"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.

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