"Japane lerature moved form idle quips directed at the oddi of the Wt to Symbolist poetry, form the thoandth told tale of the gay young bla and the harlots to the plexi of the psychologil novel" ...
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GAY YOUNG BLA
* the meaning of gay blade *
(The origal sense is difficult to seize: Bailey 1730 says: a bravo, an Hector; also a spce fellow, a be; Johnson: a brisk man, eher fierce or gay, lled so ntempt.
) [Source: OED] The meang of 'gay' ranged between reee and bched. \" \"A gay, young bla, perhaps? \" --------------------------------------------------Note add at 39 ms (2005-08-07 16:04:03 GMT)--------------------------------------------------Sce the datg of \'gay\' meang homosexual has also been brought up: It first me to general age the 1950s, and seems to have arisen om an earlier Amerin slang term \'gay t\', which origally noted a young male tramp who was the pann of an olr tramp.
The implitns of a homosexual relatnship which this rried had led by the 1930s to the e of \'gay t\' for any young male homosexual, and the applitn of \'gay\' to \'homosexual\' was probably generalized om this. Dictnary of Word Origs, John Ayto -- aga] In the OED: Of a person: homosexual. Of a place: equented by homosexuals.
GAY BLAS MEANG
A male homosexual or a male givg off homosexual tennci or vib. Origated om the movie "Zorro, The Gay Bla."" name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * the meaning of gay blade *
Erse Unrworld & Prison Slang 39 Geyt, a homosexual boy. It occurred to me that Esther rather hung round our two gay boys. --------------------------------------------------Note add at 1 hr 34 ms (2005-08-07 16:59:31 GMT)--------------------------------------------------As Ruth has directly disagreed wh my e of \'irrponsible\' for \'gay\', let me give OED\'s fn and relevant exampl for the e of the word those days: gay.
Gay dog, a man given to revellg or self-dulgence; gay Lothar: see Lothar. 124 The old gentleman, whose character I nnot better exprs than the fashnable phrase which has been ntrived to palliate false prcipl and dissolute manners, had been a gay man, and was well acquated wh the town.
36 The brilliant part of men of w and pleasure, or gay, young, ary sparks. 40 The dissolute nduct of the gay circl France is not of morn date.