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de-gay

verb

Etymology

From de- + gay.

  1. derived from vagus
  2. derived from *ǵʰengʰ-✻
  3. derived from *ganhuz✻
  4. derived from *gāhi✻
  5. derived from jai
  6. derived from *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃✻
  7. derived from gai
  8. derived from gai
  9. inherited from gay
  10. prefixed as de-gay — “de + gay”

Definitions

  1. To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to no longer be associated with gay people.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for de-gay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA