Gay fn: A gay person is homosexual. | Meang, pronunciatn, translatns and exampl
Contents:
- 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
Defn of gay_1 adjective Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictnary. Meang, pronunciatn, picture, example sentenc, grammar, age not, synonyms and more. * superlative form 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.
DEFN OF 'GAY'
* superlative form gay *
[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:. (n be offensive) A gay person is ually a man sexually attracted to mal; also a woman attracted to femal.
WHAT IS THE PARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORM OF GAY?
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.
WHAT IS THE SUPERLATIVE FOR THE WORD GAY?
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’.
HOW TO SAY GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
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”). 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.