OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 48118

gay

/ɡeɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
femenino • gay • mariconado • marimachado
Homosexual:
This incident has become a source of much discussion, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick.
aburrido • fome • penca
Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!" Jimbo: "That is so gay!"
This game is gay; let’s play a different one.
alegre • feliz
Happy, joyful, and lively.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including t…
The Gay Science
alegre • colorido • festivo • gayo • vívido
Festive, bright, or colourful.
A Beavie of fair women, richly gay / In gems and wanton dress.
Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.
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📚 noun • entry_id 48119

gay

/ɡeɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gay
A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
"Same-sex dancing, as we call it, is quite legal," a gay named Lew Todd, who was one of the spokesmen, spoke up.
[headline] N.Y. Gays: Will the Spark Die?
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