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Does gay mean happy2/9/2024 ( of a person ) Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.Gay ( comparative gayer, superlative gayest) Symbol for a male gay union Symbol for a female gay union The sense of ‘upright’, used in reference to a dog’s tail, probably derives from the ‘happy’ sense of the word. Pejorative usage is probably due to hostility towards homosexuality. The sense of homosexual (first recorded no later than 1937 by Cary Grant in the film Bringing Up Baby, and possibly earlier in 1922 in the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein ) was shortened from earlier gay cat ("homosexual boy") in underworld and prison slang, itself first attested about 1935, but used earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an older one. Ĭognate with Dutch gauw ( “ fast, quickly ” ), Westphalian Low German gau, gai ( “ fast, quick ” ), German jäh ( “ abrupt, sudden ” ).Īnatoly Liberman, following Frank Chance and Harri Meier, believes Old French gai was instead a native development from Latin vagus ( “ wandering, inconstant, flighty ” ), with * > as in French gaine. ![]() ![]() ( international standards ) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gayo.
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