Re: "gay" whores?

From: therink (therink_at_gmx.net)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:00:34 +0100

You're welcome and now I know as well ...

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:54:43 -0400, Keith GOERINGER
<verbivore@comcast.net> wrote:

> Folks,
>
>> I have been in a discussion with someone in another ng who claims to
>> have seen, in a dictionary, the word 'gay' meaning 'a woman of easy
>> morals; prostitute'. I have never heard of this usage, nor could I find
>> it in my dictionaries. Has anyone seen or heard such? (It isn't far
>> from some definitions, meaning 'licentious; wanton', but not
>> specifically in reference to a female!) I'm thinking it's either
>> dialectal or obsolete.
>
> Thanks to those (AlexV, Ben, Jacques, and "therink") who replied -- I'm
> glad to know that I haven't been missing out... ;) I'll pass this
> along to the person I've been going at it with, and maybe he'll accept
> that it's 19th-century usage!
>
> Regards,
> Keith 

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