单词 | gay blade |
释义 | > as lemmasgay 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. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person unthriftc1330 riotor1389 rioterc1440 palliard1484 skyrgalliarda1529 rakehellc1560 ranger1560 rakeshame1598 dissolute1608 pavement-beater1611 rakell1622 ranter1652 huzza1660 whorehopper1664 profligate1679 rakehellonian1692 rake1693 buck1725 blood1749 gay blade1750 have-at-alla1761 rakehellyc1768 hell-rake?1774 randan1779 rip1781 roué1781 hell-raker1816 tiger1827 raver1960 dog1994 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. < as lemmas |
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