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单词 gay blade
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gay blade
gay blade n. a dashing or lively man; a rake (rake n.7); (in later use also punningly) a homosexual man, esp. a dashing or rakish one; cf. blade n. 11b.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person
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hell-rake?1774
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hell-raker1816
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1750 J. Lockman tr. P. de Marivaux Pharsamond II. vii. 124 'Tis very pretty in you, (says a gay blade,) to measure other people's corn by your bushel.
1803 G. Colman Love laughs at Locksmiths i. i. 9 And now, my gay blade of an officer, if you choose to enter the bit with me, we'll have a trial of skill.
1928 Amer. Speech 3 259 ‘Jim Dandy’, ‘spark’, ‘gay boy’, and ‘gay blade’, etc., are now replaced by ‘lounge lizzard’, ‘giggolo’, ‘cake eater’, [etc.].
1960 W. Conton African xii. 175 One could sense at once how he got his reputation as a gay blade on the one hand, and a statesman of genius on the other.
1968 ‘A. D'Arcangelo’ Homosexual Handbk. 48 It seems to me incredible that so few of the gay blades one meets form permanent or relatively permanent attachments.
2001 J. Murdoc & D. Price Courting Justice xi. 304 The justice who had railed about using the..word ‘home’ in connection with a swinging gay blade like Hardwick apparently could, nevertheless, empathize with gay couples.
extracted from gayadj.adv.n.
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