Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• HE IS GAY / HE IS A GAY.
• GAY
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY DICTNARY

HE IS GAY / HE IS A GAY.

Gay suggts a lightns of heart or livels of mood that is openly manifted:when hearts were young and dit a good-humored, natural, expansive gaiety of mood or disposn:a jolly crowd at a suggts gladns, happs, rejoicg:joyful over the good is often terchangeable wh gay:a merry disposn; a merry party; suggts, even more than the latter, nvivial animated enjoyment. In addn to s origal and ntug sens of "merry, lively'' and "bright or showy, '' gay has had var sens alg wh sexual nduct sce the 17th century.

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After 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 as a noun. gay /ɡeɪ/ adj homosexual of or for homosexuals: a gay club reee and merry: a gay temperament brightly loured; brilliant: a gay hat given to pleasure, p social entertament: a gay life n a homosexualEtymology: 13th Century: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic origˈgayns n USAGEGayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy. Inflectns of 'gay' (adj): gayeradj parative gaytadj superlative WordReference English-Spanish Dictnary © 2023:Prcipal TranslatnsInglésEspañol.

Note: Some gay people e this sense to refer to themselv, but may be bt to e the adjective--ie, "he is gay" or "gay people"--to avoid g offense.

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gayWordReference English Ths © 2023Sense: Adjective: relatg to same-sex attractnSynonyms:homosexual Collotns (dated, sometim offensive), lbian Collotns, queer Collotns (sometim offensive, slang), LGBT, LGBTQ, same-sex, homoerotic, Sapphic (lerary), uy (US, slang), bent Collotns (UK, offensive, dated, slang)Sense: Adjective: happy or lively - datedSynonyms:happy Collotns, merry Collotns, vivac, lively Collotns, cheerful Collotns, jovial, joyful Collotns, effervcent, jolly Collotns, lighthearted, gleeful, sprightly, cheery, good spirsSense: Adjective: amg or lighthearted - datedSynonyms:Sense: Adjective: bright - datedSynonyms:.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

We have labeled exceptns as gay [man, woman, senator, player, prit, uple]a gay [rort, club, magaze, movie, hotel]gay [pri, rights, associatns, marriage, relatnships]gay [sex, porn]gay and [straight, lbian]I am (so) gay for [you, my bt iend]offensive: this is so gay!

GAY DICTNARY

Wh gay abandondated: () gay [spirs, humor]dated: gay [lors, ornaments, ratn]dated: had a gay old timedated: [young, reee] and gaynNote: The plural gays is often nsired pejorative or offensive, and general the term gay people is preferred.

Discrimatn agast [gay people, gays]allow [gay people, gays] to marry[rights, privileg] for [gay people, gays][rights] for [gay people, gays] and [lbians, trans people][bars, clubs, rorts] for [gay people, gays]a popular rort [among, for] [gay people, gays]. Inflectns of 'gay' (adj): gayeradj parative gaytadj superlative WordReference English-French Dictnary © 2023:Prcipal traductnsAnglaisFrançais.

I don't thk I've ever heard "gay" ed as a sgular noun (as your example "he is a gay"), although 's sometim so ed the plural ("he favors equal rights for gays").

" Although some dislike this age, is mon, such as the se of "LGBT" ("lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr"), and particularly the nam of var anizatns such as Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) and Children Of Lbians And Gays Everywhere (COLAGE).

If you want him to sound more "foreign" and non-native, then by all means, keep enuragg him that "he is a gay" is somehow worthy of repeat. In the Anglosphere, this nnotatn, among younger speakers, has a risive meang equivalent to bbish or stupid (as "That's so gay.

In this e, the word do not mean "homosexual", so n be ed, for example, to refer to an animate object or abstract ncept of which one disapprov.

I thk the changeover of meang me around the 1970s/1980s, and the sense of "merry" still exists* a few set phras such as "a gay old time" and "merry and gay" as well as the adverb gaily. In slang, when you say "that was so gay" you mean that was so "lame/stupid/ridiculo (and many more adjectiv that are subjective). " Even when you see as referrg to a group of people whout the explic noun, 's wrten as "LGBTs, " which I would expand as "lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people.

"He's a gay man" is fe as is "She's a black woman" but "He's a gay" (or "She's a black") is Maybe 's somethg to do wh takg a full, plited person and rcg him or her to one qualy. Inflectns of 'gay' (adj): gayeradj parative gaytadj superlative WordReference English-Italiano Dictnary © 2023:Prcipal Translatns/Traduzni prcipaliIngleItaliano. Nota: Some gay people e this sense to refer to themselv, but may be bt to e the adjective--ie, "he is gay" or "gay people"--to avoid g offense.

Inflectns of 'gay' (adj): gayeradj parative gaytadj superlative WordReference English-Greek Dictnary © 2023:Κύριες μεταφράσειςΑγγλικάΕλληνικά. Σχόλιο: Some gay people e this sense to refer to themselv, but may be bt to e the adjective--ie, "he is gay" or "gay people"--to avoid g offense.

) abbreviatn of pédéraste, origally meang someone who lov young boys (nowadays we would say pédophile), and by extensn homosexual. I thought there would be a term which is more mon than others (like gay English) and I assumed that would have an olr meang, before acquirg the meang "homosexual".

For stance, I've jt found out that schwul, the German word for 'gay' om a Low German form of 'schwül', a word meang 'sultry, hot and humid'. It's very much the same wh the French term pédé--on the one hand, 's severely offensive if ed by a straight person but on the other you'll hear gay men referrg to each other wh . alert, agile, nimble, sprightly, lively, vivac, brisk, jnty, gay, cheerful, rejoicg; betiful, fe, elegant, neat, tidy, well-drsed, flourishg.

The terms хомосексуалец (homoseksualec) [xɔmɔsɛksu'alɛt͡s] for a male, and хомосексуалка (homoseksualka) [xɔmɔsɛksu'aɫka] for a female, are ed too. That same year, Pieters beme a natnal spokperson for AIDS awarens and gay polil activism after his historic terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye on her broadst, which fied the work's homophobic tennci.

Rapoe, who is gay, is an outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ rights and was a lear the natnal team’s fight for genr equaly, which paid off last year when U. Jenna Lyons, the first openly gay hoewife, and Jsel Taank, the first Indian hoewife, jo the diverse st tend to better reprent all of the different kds of New Yorkers.

Anmerkung: Some gay people e this sense to refer to themselv, but may be bt to e the adjective--ie, "he is gay" or "gay people"--to avoid g offense. Inflectns of 'gay' (adj): gayeradj parative gaytadj superlative WordReference English-Arabic Dictnary © 2023:ترجمات رئيسيةالإنجليزيةالعربية.

ملاحظة: Some gay people e this sense to refer to themselv, but may be bt to e the adjective--ie, "he is gay" or "gay people"--to avoid g offense.

I've jt read the gay French mag "Tetu" that the UK and the US the word "gay" tends to be now ed a pejorative way like "'s so gay" = 's so bad.

Thanks, but while g this word do people thk "homosexual" the same time, I mean do "gay/borg" om the fact that people thk gay people are borg or is jt the same word wh no lk between them?

I thk a lot of people may e whout directly associatg wh homosexualy - as a kid I don't thk that I did - this may jt have been childish naivete however My spicn however is that s history is related to the sult of gay as "effemate", then beg broaned to a more generic disparagg term.

In my opn "that's so gay" is the kd of spontaneo rebelln that occurs when elists try to dictate language e, whether for Polil Correctu or any other reason.

To me had sexual meang, and to my ears the remark sound like a slam to whatever was beg discsed and a slam to gays at the same time.

If is ed a jokg manner is, maybe even subnscly, negative is as sultg as llg someone short ass, spastic, nigger, to be jewish (for mean) a slut, gay etc even if the speaker don't 'mean '.. Maybe I wasn't clear enough how I terpreted what you said - my qutn is - if is not homophobic to e "gay" that way is not racist to e the terms "black" or "Jewish" the same way?

Maybe so - but then maybe we have a different terpretatn of the word "homophobic" (and equally "racist" I would therefore gus). As far as I am aware is a synonym of "homosexual" I am hontly not aware of beg a phemism for anythg, and I severely doubt that any playground e is such. (I'm not sayg that the exprsn always shows exprsed homophobia, but imo has fely stemmed and blossomed om the perceptn of a certa group of people's sexualy).

Firefoxbrand, as a ntemporary, I jt have to say that while we've ma enormo progrs sce the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, we have one vil of a long way still to go, particularly the area of gay rights. Jt bee one societal factn (social engeers, not gay people) ci we need a "nicer word" for somethg-- don't mean the origal word, or the thg not, is "bad.