gay
suomi-englanti sanakirjagay englannista suomeksi
eläväinen, hilpeä
homo-
iloisenvärinen, korea
iloinen
gay
homo, homoseksuaali gender-neutral, gay, gei urban colloquial, homppeli
Substantiivi
gay englanniksi
(ISO 639)
(cap):
Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself. (defdt)
(ux)
1947, ''Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques''http://books.google.com/books?id=vloZAAAAIAAJ, page 240:
- (quote)
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2007, Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, David Serlin, ''Queer Futures'', Radical History Review (Duke University Press), page 58:
- The two failed attempts to receive the necessary access to medicalized transition procedures by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refused to comply with the imperative that transsexual men must desire women—(..)
{{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=Betty Jean Lifton|title=Lost & Found: the Adoption Experience|page=67
Describing a homosexual man.
Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Noėl Sturgeon|title=Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=xJEZkys_fVkC&pg=PA128&dq=gay|page=128
Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
(cot)
Intended for gay people, ''especially'' gay men.
(quote-book)
{{quote-text|en|year=2003|author=Lawrence Block|title=Small Town|page=269
{{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Martin Hughes; Sarah Johnstone; Tom Masters|title=London|page=208
{{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Jay Mohr|title=No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales from a Stand-Up Dad|page=252
Homosexually in love with someone.
{{quote-journal|en|date=2014 December 6|author=Ej Dickson|title=The 7 worst things about NBC's "Peter Pan Live!"|journal=Salon.com|url=https://www.salon.com/2014/12/06/the_7_worst_things_about_nbcs_peter_pan_live_partner/
{{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Christopher Schaberg; Robert Bennett|title=Deconstructing Brad Pitt|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=9781623563967|page=211
(quote-journal)|url=https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/5/2/15515066/stephen-colbert-trump-putin-homophobia-late-show
Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
{{quote-journal|en|date=2014 December 31|author=Dan Savage|quotee=anonymous|title=Savage Love|journal=The Stranger|url=https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=21284217
In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, ''especially'' gay men.
Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, ''especially'' gay men.
{{quote-book|en|year=a. 2005|author=Jason Christopher Hartley|chapter=October 23, 2004: This Is My Weapon, This Is My Gerber|title=Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq|publisher=HarperCollins|year_published=2005|isbn=0-06-084366-7|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=tYh-5LEb6IQC&pg=PA25&dq=gay|page=25
(non-gloss)
Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
(non-gloss): lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
(syn)
1996, https://web.archive.org/web/20100427043248/http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F01.html Lisa's Date With Density, The Simpsons (cartoon television series). Upon discovering Nelson kissing Lisa:
- Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!"
- Jimbo: "That is so gay!"
(circa), Walsh (poet)|William Walch, preface to ''Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant'', in (w), ''The Fourth Part of Miſcellany Poems'', Jacob Tonson (publisher, 1716), page 338:
(RQ:Orczy Miss Elliott)
1934, (w) et al., (title):
(quote-journal)
(quote-song)
{{quote-text|en|year=1974|author=Lawrence Durrell|title=Monsieur|page=252|publisher=Faber & Faber|year_published=1992
{{quote-text|en|year=1873|author=Gwordie Greenup|title=Yance a Year|section=25
{{quote-text|en|year=1918|title=Hunter-trader-trapper|page=36
{{quote-book|en|year=2016|author=Laura Jean Libbey|title=Mischievous Maid Faynie|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=9781465612335
{{quote-book|en|year=2019|author=Lawrence Lariar|title=He Died Laughing|publisher=Open Road Media|isbn=9781504056427
''Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.''
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
1881, J. P. McCaskey (editor), “Deck the Hall(SI)”, ''Franklin Square Song Collection'', number 1, Harper & Brothers (New York), page 120:
1944, Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), engaged in prostitution.
1806 (edition of 1815), John Davis, ''The Post-Captain'', page 150:
- As our heroes passed along the Strand, they were accosted by a hundred gay ladies, who asked them if they were good-natured. "Devil take me!" exclaimed Echo, "if I know which way my ship heads; but there is not a girl in the Strand that I would touch with my gloves on."
{{quote-book|en|year=1856|author=Bayle St. John|title=The Subalpine kingdom: or, Experiences and studies in Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa|volume=2|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=fi0LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&dq=%22gay+*+man%22+%22debauched%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iCV8T9GLFoeYiAeLqJmeCQ&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAQv=onepage&q=%22gay%20*%20man%22%20%22debauched%22&f=false|page=158
{{quote-book|en|year=1879|location=House of Commons|author=Great Britain|title=Reports from committees|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=vDVcAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA61&dq=%22gay%22+%22prostitute%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YBx8T5WAKoSjiAedpNmmCQ&ved=0CGsQ6AEwCDgKv=onepage&q=%22gay%22%20%22prostitute%22&f=false|page=61
{{quote-text|en|year=1889|author=Albert Barrère; Charles Godfrey Leland|title=A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker's Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology|volume=1|url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofslan00barruoftpage/398/mode/2up|page=399
{{quote-book|en|year=1898|author=John Mackinnon Robertson; G. Aston Singer|chapter=The Social Evil Problem|title=The University magazine and free revie a monthly magazine|volume=9|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=0QMbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA308&dq=%22gay%22+%22prostitute%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rxx8T62bBu6OiAe1_cDDCQ&ved=0CF8Q6AEwBjgov=onepage&q=%22gay%22%20%22prostitute%22&f=false|page=308
{{quote-book|en|year=1899|author=Henry Fielding|editor=Edmund Gosse|title=The works of Henry Fielding with an introduction|volume=11|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UFM4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA290&dq=%22gay%22+%22prostitute%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UB18T8HkHsKTiAfulZmqCQ&ved=0CG8Q6AEwCTh4v=onepage&q=%22gay%22%20%22prostitute%22&f=false|page=290
{{quote-text|en|year=1937|author=Dorothy L. Sayers|title=Busman's Honeymoon|page=357
Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
{{quote-text|en|year=1832|author=George Pearson|title=Evenings by Eden-side: Or, Essays and Poems|page=67
{{quote-text|en|year=1872|author=William Cullen Bryant|title=A Library of Poetry and Song|page=106
1876 (edition; original 1871), Richardson, ''Talk'' 1:
- A gay deal different to what I is noo.
1881, Dixon, ''Craven Dales'':
- There were a gay bit of lace on it.
{{quote-text|en|year=1881|author=Edwin Waugh|title=Tufts of Heather|section=I. 106
{{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=Sir Hall Caine|title=The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance|page=131
{{quote-book|en|year=1903|author=Robert Smith Surtees|title=Handley Cross|location=New York|publisher=D. Appleton|page=431
A homosexual, ''especially'' a male homosexual.
{{quote-journal|en|year=1969|title=N.Y. Gays: Will the Spark Die?|journal=The Advocate
{{quote-book|en|year=1974|title=Show Business Laid Bare|author=Earl Wilson
{{quote-text|en|year=2003|author=Marilyn J. Davidson; Sandra L. Fielden|title=Individual Diversity and Psychology in Organizations|page=73
{{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Betty Berzon|title=Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships That Last|page=20
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Todd J. Ormsbee|title=The Meaning of Gay|page=313
Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
{{quote-text|en|year=1839|author=Charles Clark|title=John Noakes and Mary Styles|section=st. 157
{{quote-text|en|year=1892|author=P. H. Emerson|title=A Son of the Fens|page=73
{{quote-book|en|year=1893|author=Cozens-Hardy|title=Broad Nrf.|page=38
(ante), W. R. Eaton of Norfolk, quoted in 1900, Joseph Wright, ''The English Dialect Dictionary'':
- There's a good child; look at the gays, and keep quiet.
An ornament, a knick-knack.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables)
1906, ''Cornish Notes & Queries: (first Series)'' (Cornish Telegraph, Peter Penn), page 132:
- If however the stranger be suspected of “sailing under false colours," when they are all in familiar chat about nothing in particular, “Cousin Jacky” will take occasion to say to the new chum, “My dear; ded 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay?" (..) no more deceived by him than a duck can be made to clunk (swallow) a gay (fragment of broken crockery).
{{quote-text|en|year=1922|author=Thomas Hardy|title=Late lyrics and earlier: with many other verses|page=119
{{quote-text|en|year=1952|title=American Childhood|volume=38|page=2
To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1833|author=John Sim Sands|title=Poems on Various Subjects|page=115
{{quote-text|en|year=1869|author=Joseph Carr|title=Sketches of village life, by “Eavesdropper”|page=60
{{quote-book|en|year=1875|author=Dickinson|title=Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life|page=8
{{quote-text|en|year=1886|author=Thomas Farrall|title=Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals|section=42
1892-3, Mrs. Humphry Ward, ''The History of David Grieve'', volume I, page 19:
- She'll mak naw moor mischeef neets—she's gay quiet now!
The letter —, which stands for the sound (IPAchar), in shorthand.
(l); man (zh-mw)
(l) male
(l) (gloss)
(l), homosexual
(l)
(eclipsis of)
1405 Geoffrey Chaucer, ''The Wife of Bath's Tale'', ''The Canterbury Tales'' (Wikisource:The Canterbury Tales/The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale|source):
homosexual (gloss)
overly sentimental
(l); homosexual (gloss), especially a male homosexual
a person who lame, stupid or shows any other unpleasant characteristics
a homosexual person, (l) person
(l), homosexual
(alt form)