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Have you ever assumed that "gay" means a liking for showtunes and a peculiar affinity with small girls from Kansas? Do you mourn the hijacking of the word "gay" from its earlier, innocent* meaning?
Fear no more: I intend to track the contemporary meaning of the word to spare your social blushes.
#1 adj. of obscure words having two (or occasionally three) letters, thus being deployed in Scrabble. "You use all those gay words."
Fear no more: I intend to track the contemporary meaning of the word to spare your social blushes.
#1 adj. of obscure words having two (or occasionally three) letters, thus being deployed in Scrabble. "You use all those gay words."
#2 adj. hungry, esp. for debit cards. "That cashpoint's gay."
* "slightly drunk";"Addicted to social pleasures and dissipations; often euphemistic: Of immoral life."; "the male member"; "a dupe; "impudent, of women leading an immoral or harlots's life; "to copulate."
