GAY meang: 1 : sexually or romantilly attracted to someone who is the same sex; 2 : of, relatg to, or ed by gay people
Contents:
- GAY - CHEERFUL
- CHEERFUL AND GAY
- SENTENCE EXAMPL FOR CHEERFUL AND GAY OM SPIRG ENGLISH SOURC
- CHEERFUL / SYNONYMS / GAY
- TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] MEANG, TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] FN | ENGLISH COBUILD DICTNARY
- GAY
GAY - CHEERFUL
How are the words Cheerful and Gay related? Cheerful and Gay are synonymo, and they have mutual synonyms. * cheerful and gay *
One, she is dtr, two, gay, three, a quette - and ocsnally pretty.
CHEERFUL AND GAY
High qualy example sentenc wh “cheerful and gay” ntext om reliable sourc - Ludwig is the lguistic search enge that helps you to wre better English * cheerful and gay *
I found gay mean cheerful is ok to e as formal sayg? Maybe you n e the word gay this sense wh re, ntexts where is not open to scere or wilful misterpretatn. gay ed to be synonymo wh happy/cheerful.
But now is synonymo wh homosexualy. If you e gay to mean the former, you have to be clear on the ntext.
SENTENCE EXAMPL FOR CHEERFUL AND GAY OM SPIRG ENGLISH SOURC
The words Cheerful and Gay have synonymo (siar) meang. Fd out what nnects the two synonyms. Unrstand the difference between Cheerful and Gay. * cheerful and gay *
If you jt say, you are gay- someone would probably take as an sult and not that they are cheerful/happy.
Isn't odd; we still e gaiety, so why should a happy word like gay be so mistreated? If I say this, while gay has many meang, gaiety has only meang of joyfulns.
CHEERFUL / SYNONYMS / GAY
to be gay [cheerful] translatn English - English Reverso dictnary, see also 'cheerfully, cheerfulns, cheer, cheer up', exampl, fn, njugatn * cheerful and gay *
Generally, I would have said that any texts wrten before the 1950s the word "gay" would only have one meang: cheerful!
Apparently, there are earlier referenc to "gay" meang "homosexual", read this article.
I had no ia that the word gay was ed to scribe homosexuals so long ago! Old Lady: The Creole society ed to be so gay New Orleans!
TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] MEANG, TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] FN | ENGLISH COBUILD DICTNARY
* cheerful and gay *
Gay don't seem f as an oppose of "hangs on by s fgernails" (barely managg to avoid danger or failure).
(pullg some other words om the Word Reference dictnary fns for "gay"). If gay origally meant cheerful/happy, why and how did bee a word to refer to homosexual people? Here's what the (big) Oxford English Dictnary says:It seems most likely that the ‘homosexual’ sense A.
GAY
To go gay): unhibed; wild, crazy; flamboyant.
The word started as a new phemism for "homosexual".
It replaced the prev term "queer", which was no longer "polilly rrect": the 1970s one need to e "gay" stead. Usage example: a cheerful person who is always fun to work wh and a pleasure to be around Gay Gay adjective - Havg much high-spired energy and movement.