Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gay
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Gay
gay
(gays, gayer, gayest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A gay person is homosexual. The quality of life for gay men has improved over the last two decades. ...the gay community. ? straight ADJ: usu ADJ n • Gays are homosexual people, especially homosexual men. More importantly, gays have proved themselves to be style leaders. N-PLURAL • gayness ...Mike’s admission of his gayness. N-UNCOUNT 2. A gay person is fun to be with because they are lively and cheerful. (OLD-FASHIONED) I am happy and free, in good health, gay and cheerful. ADJ 3. A gay object is brightly coloured and pretty to look at. (OLD-FASHIONED) I like gay, relaxing paintings. = cheerful ADJ
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French gai, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gahi quick, sudden Date: 14th century 1. a. happily excited ; merry in a ~ mood b. keenly alive and exuberant ; having or inducing high spirits a bird's ~ spring song 2. a. bright, lively ~ sunny meadows b. brilliant in color 3. given to social pleasures; also licentious 4. a. homosexual ~ men b. of, relating to, or used by homosexuals the ~ rights movement a ~ bar Synonyms: see lively • ~ adverb • ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1953 homosexual; especially a homosexual male GAY biographical name John 1685-1732 English poet & dramatist ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 light-hearted and carefree; mirthful. 2 characterized by cheerfulness or pleasure (a gay life). 3 brightly coloured; showy, brilliant (a gay scarf). 4 colloq. a homosexual. b intended for or used by homosexuals (a gay bar). Usage Generally informal in use, but favoured by homosexuals with ref. to themselves. 5 colloq. dissolute, immoral. --n. colloq. a homosexual, esp. male. Phrases and idioms Gay Liberation the advocacy of homosexuals' freedom from social discrimination. Derivatives gayness n. Etymology: ME f. OF gai, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. разг. "гомик", гомосексуалист (также a male gay) 2. веселый, радостный, беспечный gay voices —- веселые (радостные) голоса we were all gay at the thought of the coming holidays —- мы все радовались в предвкушении приближающихся каникул 3. веселый, радующий, создающий хорошее настроение gay tune —- веселый (живой) мотив on this gay occasion —- в этот радостный день, по этому радостному случаю gay Paree —- разг. веселый, сияющий Париж 4. яркий, пестрый; нарядный; блестящий gay colours —- пестрые цвета gay flowers —- яркие цветы gay frocks —- яркие (нарядные) платья gay with streamers —- нарядно украшенный серпантином (лентами) the streets were gay with lights —- на улицах была иллюминация dressed in her gayest (dress) —- разг. одетая в самое нарядное платье 5. ам. вздорный, наглый 6. разг. подвыпивший he was rather gay —- он был немного навеселе 7. беспутный to lead a gay life —- вести беспутную жизнь 8. разг. гомосексуальный gay people —- "гомики", гомосексуалисты he is gay —- он педераст gay liberation (movement) —- движение за признание законности гомосексуализма gay women —- лесбиянки Id: gay science —- уст. поэзия (особ. любовная) Id: gay bird (dog) —- любитель удовольствий; весельчак, гуляка Id: gay lady —- женщина легкого поведения; карт. дама Id: gay Lothario —- ловелас Id: (as) gay as a lark —- очень веселый,...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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bird весельчак GAY 1. adj. 1) гомосексуальный 2) веселый; радостный 3) беспутный to lead a gay life - вести беспутную жизнь 4) яркий, пестрый; нарядный, блестящий 2. noun гомосексуалист ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj 1 sexually attracted to people of the same sex as yourself; homosexual (gay rights/community etc (=the rights etc of gay people)) (a gay rights demonstration) 2 old-fashioned bright or attractive (gay colours) 3 old-fashioned cheerful and excited (She felt excited and quite gay.) 4 with gay abandon in a careless and thoughtless way (- see also gaily, gaiety) - gayness n ~2 n someone who is homosexual, especially a man ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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3-let. lang. abbr. Gayo adult abbr. Gorgeous And Young adult abbr. Giant Asian Penis law abbr. Gates And Young chat abbr. Good As You ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- 1178, from O.Fr. gai "gay, merry," perhaps from Frank. (cf. O.H.G. gahi "sudden, impulsive"). Slang for "homosexual" is 1951, apparently shortened from gey cat "homosexual boy," c.1935 in a dictionary of "Underworld & Prison Slang;" used as far back as 1893 in Amer.Eng. for "young hobo," one who is new on the road and usually in the company of an older tramp, with catamite connotations (gey is a Scot. variant of gay). Josiah Flynt ["Tramping With Tramps," 1905] defines gay cat as, "An amateur tramp who works when his begging courage fails him" Gey cats were also said to be tramps who offered sexual services to women, and the word gay in the 1890s had an overall tinge of promiscuity -- a gay house was a brothel. The suggestion of immorality in the word can be traced back to 1637. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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