9/6/2023 0 Comments Your so lame meaning![]() ![]() I’m not homosexual/gay, but I support everyone’s right to choose a sex partner. OK, a few days late and I still am unsure where to begin, so let me just say that when my now-18-year-old daughter started coming home using that expression, I was livid. These six definitions with their examples only scratch the surface of all the meanings that have been attached to the word gay since it entered the language from Anglo-Norman gai/gaye, and provide an excellent case study of the arbitrariness of language. Foolish, stupid, socially inappropriate or disapproved of ‘lame’.Įxamples: 1978 ‘It looks terrific on you.’ ‘It looks gay.’ 1987 Your so-stupid-they’re-funny captions are gay. (a) Of a person: homosexual (b) (of a place, milieu, way of life, etc.) of or relating to homosexuals.Įxamples: 1941 Gay, an adjective used almost exclusively by homosexuals to denote homosexuality…2003 Episcopalians took a big step toward electing their first openly gay bishop.ġ978 slang (chiefly U.S.) (sometimes considered offensive). Translation: Some homosexual professors (keeping secret catamites) do love their wives…to avoid shame.ġ922-2003 orig. in to go gay): uninhibited wild, crazy flamboyant.Įxample: Sum gay professors (kepinge secret minions) do love there wyues.to avoyde shame Translation: A story about love…made her heart fresh and merry.ġ597 Originally of persons and later also more widely: dedicated to social pleasures dissolute, promiscuous frivolous, hedonistic. Translation: Upon the tower…there stands a brilliant jewel, An eagle of gold that shines as does the sun in May.Ĭ1385 Of persons, their attributes, actions, etc.: light-hearted, carefree manifesting, characterized by, or disposed to joy and mirth exuberantly cheerful, merry sportive.Įxample: A lay Of love.made hire herte fressh and gay. in colour brilliant, showy.Įxample: Oppon þe tour.þar stondeþ a iuwel gay, An egle of gold þat schynaþ brigt so doþ þe sonne on may. (“stout,” meant “stately, magnificent, splendid” “iay” refers to the European jay)Ĭ1380 Bright or lively-looking, esp. Translation: She is precious by day, gracious, splendid and excellent, gentle, jolly as a bird. I recently received a comment on one of my posts that said, “This is gay.” As the comment made no sense in the context, I was puzzled.įor those fogies like me who hadn’t realized that the word gay has morphed again, here’s a timeline of its changing meanings as illustrated in the OED.Įxample: Heo is… graciouse, stout, ant gay, gentil, iolyf so þe iay ![]()
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