Defn of a gay old time It's a very old fashned way of sayg "a great time"
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GAY OLD TIME
by Jordan Redman Staff Wrer Do you know what the word gay really means? The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai,” meang “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meang impulsive. * gay old time phrase meaning *
gay old time (untable and ununtable, plural gay old tim). Ah, what a gay old time we're havg.
GAY OLD TIME
That was a gay old time! 3) Hey, Osr Wil, I hear ya've been havg a gay old time down at the Gentleman's Wrer club.
In 2022 no native speaker would ever take the adjective gay to mean anythg but homosexual, so beware. Those of who grew up wh The Flston are perfectly aware of the archaic meang of "gay" bee of s e old rtoons like this one. Sce the OP was about the e of "gay old", and sce this thread was posted the Spanish-English fom for translatns, I'll share how was translated one Spanish versn of the show: Tú te divertirás.
A GAY, OLD TIME
Do you know what the word gay really means?
The word gay dat back to the 12th century and om the Old French “gai, ” meang “full of joy or mirth. For centuri, gay was ed monly speech and lerature to mean happy, reee, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual meang until the 1600s.
At that time the meang of gay as reee evolved to imply that a person was unrtraed by morals and prone to nce and promiscuy. A prostute might have been scribed as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man. “Gay hoe” was monly ed to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was ed as a mon name for certa plac of entertament.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
In the 1890s, the term “gey t” (a Sttish variant of gay) was ed to scribe a vagrant who offered sexual servic to women or a young traveler who was new to the road and the pany of an olr man. This latter e suggts that the younger man was a sexually submissive role and may be among the first tim that gay was ed implyg a homosexual relatnship.