"gay lady" meaning in English

See gay lady in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: gay ladies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gay lady (plural gay ladies)
  1. (obsolete, euphemistic) A female prostitute. Tags: euphemistic, obsolete
    Sense id: en-gay_lady-en-noun-FNJe3DZG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for gay lady meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gay ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gay lady (plural gay ladies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female prostitute."
      ],
      "id": "en-gay_lady-en-noun-FNJe3DZG",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, euphemistic) A female prostitute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gay lady"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gay ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gay lady (plural gay ladies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female prostitute."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, euphemistic) A female prostitute."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gay lady"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.