| 单词 | to go gay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go gay b. Originally of persons and later also more widely: dedicated to social pleasures; dissolute, promiscuous; frivolous, hedonistic. Also (esp. in to go gay): uninhibited; wild, crazy; flamboyant. Cf. Gay Nineties n. at Compounds 2b. Now rare.See also gay dog n. at Compounds 2b. gay Lothario: see Lothario n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective] golec888 canga1225 light?c1225 wooinga1382 nicea1387 riota1400 wantonc1400 wrenec1400 lachesc1450 loose?a1500 licentious1555 libertine1560 prostitute1569 riggish1569 wide1574 slipper1581 slippery1586 sportive1595 gay1597 Cyprian1598 suburb1598 waggish1600 smicker1606 suburbian1606 loose-living1607 wantona1627 free-living1632 libertinous1632 loose-lived1641 Corinthian1642 akolastic1656 slight1685 fast1699 freea1731 brisk1740 shy1787 slang1818 randomc1825 fastish1832 loosish1846 slummya1860 velocious1872 fly1880 slack1951 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 27 Sum gay professors (kepinge secret minions) do love there wyues..to avoyde shame. 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man v. iii. sig. L3 Then I dare rise vp And tell this gay man to his teeth, I neuer Durst doubt her constancie. 1637 J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure v. K 1 b Lord. You'le not be angry, Madam. Cel. Nor rude, though gay men have a priviledge. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 130 Every Dunce of a Quack, is call'd a Physician..Every Gay thing, a Chevalier. 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i Is this that Haughty, Gallant, Gay Lothario? 1754 Adventurer No. 124. ⁋7 The old gentleman, whose character I cannot better express than in the fashionable phrase which has been contrived to palliate false principles and dissolute manners, had been a gay man, and was well acquainted with the town. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 36 The brilliant part of men of wit and pleasure, or gay, young, military sparks. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne ii. 40 The dissolute conduct of the gay circles in France is not of modern date. 1847 H. Rogers Ess. I. v. 214 For some years he lived a cheerful, and even gay, though never a dissipated life, in Paris. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 103 The place was merely a gay suburb of the capital. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 382/2 The principal of the firm was what is termed ‘gay’. He was particularly fond of attending public entertainments. He sported a little as well, and delighted in horse-racing. 1879 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 4 Jan. 6/1 Besides being very handsome, there are reasons to fear that Mr. Charles Victor Fremy was sometimes very, very gay. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 302 This elder Narcissa had led a gay and wild life while beauty lasted. 1897 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. VIII. 224 My patient was a married man, who admitted having been very gay in early life. 1907 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) 27 Jan. 4/8 Imagine Fat Sir Forrest with a Thirst And a tendency for nightly going gay. 1932 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 17 Aug. 9/4 Often the beginning of a married man's sidesteppings are coincident with his starting down the financial toboggan... Think of the number of men you know who began to lose out as soon as they began to go gay. 1939 H. Walpole Sea Tower iv. 54 She understood that there had been ‘ladies’. Her father had in fact a..reputation as ‘gay’. 1961 Blackwood's Mag. 290 255/1 Charles was..at home when Mrs M'Gumph went gay. to go gay 6. U.S. Amongst the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) or other (esp. nonconformist) religious groups: denoting a person who has ceased adhering to the plain and simple life or beliefs of the community; worldly. Esp. in gay Quaker, to go gay. Now chiefly historical.This sense perhaps arises from the idea that showy clothes are a mark of worldliness; compare use of to go gay in 16th–17th cent. quots. at sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 1798 Aurora (Philadelphia) 6 Nov. 3/2 Her dress was pretty nearly that marked as ‘gay quakers’; she wore a white gown, white gloves, white..bonnet, green petticoat, and drab cloak. 1876 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 90/1 Abner and Susan..were of the strictest sort of Friends, even in the Quaker City where all were strict, and ‘gay Quakers’ were as yet unknown. 1888 J. Gossler Turnpike-road 71 The attendance [at the Quaker meeting-house] was much larger fifty years ago... During the interval they have become ‘gay’, or ‘gone West’, or ‘over to the majority’. 1935 Amer. Speech 10 169/1 To go gay, meaning to become worldly in the sense of attending dances, card parties, or participating in other forbidden pleasures. 1969 Washington Post 9 Nov. g3/1 If an Amish young man enters the outside world—what they call ‘going gay’—his father is relieved of the obligation of providing a farm for that son. 1999 S. Bruce Choice & Relig. vi. 151 Early Quakers would not have read a novel or attended the theatre but the Gay Quakers (usually the offspring of wealthy merchants)..became more and more like the Church of England neighbours with whom they mixed as social equals. < as lemmas |
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