GAYDAR | fn the Cambridge English Dictnary

Contents:

• GAYDAR (N.)
• WHERE DID THE TERM "GAYDAR" ORIGATE?
• GAYDAR
• MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH
• HAVG A ‘GAYDAR’ MEANS THAT YOU WILL EASILY REGNIZE WHO IS GAY
• MEANG OF "GAYDAR" THE ENGLISH DICTNARY
• GAY (ADJ.)
• DEFN OF GAYDAR
• GAYDAR MEANG
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAYDAR?
• WHAT IS THE PLURAL OF GAYDAR?
• THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

GAYDAR (N.)

As a surname, Philipp Gay), om Old French gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charmg; forward, pert; light-lored" (12c.

WHERE DID THE TERM "GAYDAR" ORIGATE?

; 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. 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.

Whan that he wol han my bele slang meang "homosexual" (adj. ) 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.

GAYDAR

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. 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). That's why we ll them 'Gay Cats'.

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.

MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH

McCook, "Tramps, " "The Public Treatment of Pperism, " 1893], but some acunts report certa olr tramps would domate a gay t and employ him as a sort of slave. 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. ) was ed by homosexuals, among themselv, this sense at least sce 1920.

Rawson ["Wicked Words"] not a male prostute g gay reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostut) London's notor Cleveland Street Sndal of 1889. Ayto ["20th Century Words"] lls attentn to the ambiguo e of the word the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk the Dry Goods Store, " by U. "Gay" (or "gai") is now wily ed French, Dutch, Danish, Japane, Swedish, and Catalan wh the same sense as the English.

[John Boswell, "Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, " 1980]As a teen slang word meang "bad, ferr, unsirable, " whout reference to sexualy, om 2000.

HAVG A ‘GAYDAR’ MEANS THAT YOU WILL EASILY REGNIZE WHO IS GAY

Slang: the supposed abily to regnize through observatn or tun that a person is gay. Women's gaydar improv durg ovulatn. My gaydar even don’t work that well the prent, let alone retroactively.

The thors were then ready to p their predictn mol agast humans what would bee a notor gaydar petn. The exampl are programmatilly piled om var onle sourc to illtrate current age of the word 'gaydar.

blend of gay and radar.

MEANG OF "GAYDAR" THE ENGLISH DICTNARY

The first known e of gaydar was.

Dictnary Entri Near gaydar.

“Gaydar. She is gay.

GAY (ADJ.)

Who is gay? (who stands for she, but 's not is who gay?, bee who mt e first).

DEFN OF GAYDAR

Tell me who is gay. Who replac she, the subject; the normal word orr om she is gay is prerved the direct qutn ( Tell me who is gay.

GAYDAR MEANG

In the direct qutn ( Who is gay? Gay is my iend. Who is Gay?

Tell me who Gay is.

Then gay would be the subject, so would have to be a noun; but there is no noun gay, so the only possibily would be the name of a person, wh a pal: someone named Gay.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAYDAR?

My iend is gay. the supposed abily to regnize other people who are gayWord Orig1980s: blend of gay and radar.

WHAT IS THE PLURAL OF GAYDAR?

See gaydar the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnaryCheck pronunciatn:. gaydar. Gaydar Gaydar is a lloquialism referrg to the tuive abily of a person to asss others' sexual orientatns as gay, bisexual or heterosexual.

Gaydar reli almost exclively on non-verbal clu and LGBT stereotyp. The tectn of sexual orientatn by outward appearance or behavr is equently challenged by suatns which mascule gay men who do not act a stereotypilly "gay" fashn, or wh metrosexual men who exhib a liftyle, spendg habs, and ncern for personal appearance stereotypil of fashnable urban gay men.

THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

Gay (adj. [John Boswell, "Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, " 1980]As a teen slang word meang "bad, ferr, unsirable, " whout reference to sexualy, om (n. )"a (ually male) homosexual, " by 1971, om gay (adj.

In Middle English meant "excellent person, noble lady, gallant knight, " also "somethg gay or bright; an ornament or badge" (c. Dictnary G Gaydar Transcriptn US Pronunciatn US IPA [gey-dahr] /ˈgeɪ dɑr/ US Pronunciatn US IPA [gey-dahr] /ˈgeɪ dɑr/ Defns of gaydar word noun gaydar a person's purported tuive or sensg abily to intify homosexuals. 1 noun gaydar The putative abily of homosexuals to regnize one another tuively or by means of very slight ditns.

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