hey i didnt wanna do this.
1gay \'ga^-\
[ME, fr. MF gai]
(14c)
1a: happily excited: MERRY
1b: keenly alive and exuberant: having or inducing high spirits <he
turned from>
2a: BRIGHT, LIVELY <gay sunny meadows>
2b: brilliant in color
3: given to social pleasures; also: LICENTIOUS
those are the three+ definitions that come before "homosexual"
and heres "queer"
1queer \'kwi(e)r\ adj
[origin unknown]
(1508)
1a: differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal
1b (1): ECCENTRIC, UNCONVENTIONAL
1b (2): mildly insane: TOUCHED
1c: absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree:
OBSESSED
1d: sexually deviate: HOMOSEXUAL -- usu. used disparagingly
2a: WORTHLESS, COUNTERFEIT <queer money>
2b: QUESTIONABLE, SUSPICIOUS
3: not quite well
syn see STRANGE
now queer means bent out of shape. and gay means queer. so by proof by
induction, gay can also mean "bent out of shape"
i rest my fucking case.
