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• GAY
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• WHAT IS THE PARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORM OF GAY?
• WHAT IS THE SUPERLATIVE FOR THE WORD GAY?
• HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

GAY

(of people, pecially men) sexually attracted to people of the same sex synonym homosexualgay menI didn't know he was she gay? Oppose straightTopics People societyb2Oxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry.

[only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry.

[not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay. See also gaiety, gailyWord OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown whout thkg about the rults or effects of a particular actn See gay the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnarySee gay the Oxford Learner's Dictnary of Amic EnglishCheck pronunciatn:.

DEFN OF 'GAY'

(n be offensive) A gay person is ually a man sexually attracted to mal; also a woman attracted to femal. 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.

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.

Homosexual as a noun is sometim ed only reference to a maleMost material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Pengu Random Hoe LLC. The olr form whout umlt appears Berl dialect the 19th century the current sense, buildg on the slang term warm (as warmer Br) for ‘homosexual’. From Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), om Frankish *gāhi;[1] both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”).

WHAT IS THE PARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORM OF GAY?

The sense of homosexual (first rerd no later than 1937 by Cary Grant the film Brgg Up Baby, and possibly earlier 1922 the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gert Ste[6][7]) was shortened om earlier gay t ("homosexual boy") unrworld and prison slang, self first attted about 1935, but ed earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an olr one. 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. 2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrtlg Entertament Yearbook:She uldn't even ga accs om a fay iend whose name was on the list, nor uld she e her feme charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more imprsed seeg Billy and Chuck enter the buildg.

2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:Of the dozen or so survivg articl, squibs, and letters to the edor, the most remarkable appeared the Whip and Satirist’s Febary 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a bal of gay men New York's otherwise wholome nightspe of brothels and rts. " He was a foreigner, an Englishman, the long tradn of blamg homosexualy on the fluence of aliens.

WHAT IS THE SUPERLATIVE FOR THE WORD GAY?

Among the syndite of perverts, the wrer announced, "we fd no Amerins as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English lled homosexualy the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip was the French and English vice). The two failed attempts to receive the necsary accs to medilized transn procr by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refed to ply wh the imperative that transsexual men mt sire women— […].

2009, Betty Jean Lifton, Lost & Found: the Adoptn Experience, page 67:Her adoptive mother fated when Gail told her she was gay. 2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism Popular Culture: Genr, Race, Sexualy, and the Polics of the Natural, page 128:In fact, as several letter wrers to the New York Tim poted out their rponse to the article, the disjuncture between the two popularized pengus shows how radilly separated om each other are muni of gay people and muni of right-wg relig nservativ: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay pengus" or even "pengus" on the Inter, they would have enuntered several gay pengu s, cludg the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay pengu uple about whom a children's book was wrten; the saga of the gay pengu muny at a German zoo; and the mpaign of Gay Pengu for Print (whose slogan was "Gee W.

Although the number of gay weddgs has creased signifintly, many gay and lbian upl — like many straight upl — are not terted gettg married. (lloquial) Not heterosexual, or not cisgenr: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgenr, etc. 1977, Charl Silverste; Edmund Whe, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:Gays meet each other special-tert social groups—gay softball leagu, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist polil anizatns, the Gay Amic Unn (an anizatn for gay teachers, scholars and stunts), gay universy stunt clubs and so on.

HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 269:He might well have spected Cheek was a gay bar whout seeg any of s patrons, simply bee was a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and bee you uldn't see the wdows. 2004, Mart Hugh; Sarah Johnstone; Tom Masters, London, page 208:Turn left to chilled-out Old Compton St and try to gus which bars are gay.

2010, Jay Mohr, No Wonr My Parents Drank: Tal om a Stand-Up Dad, page 252:Aga I was to masturbate to a cup and aga the majory of the porn was gay. 2014, Christopher Schaberg; Robert Bent, Denstctg Brad Pt, Bloomsbury Publishg USA, →ISBN, page 211:Beg gay for Brad, even a teensy b, is at the very least beg able to image the potential for queerns.