Gay

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Gayity or gay bus means “embarrassment”, “distress”, “difficulty” or “fear”. They got themselves into the idioms “get caught in gay” and “be in gay bus”, which describe a difficult or embarrassing situation.

The Low German word gay for “oppressively hot” was adopted into High German in the 17th century and, probably by influencing the antonym cool , converted into sultry in the 18th century . When it is humid or stifling heat, one feels trepidation. When you get into trouble, you can get “really hot”. For the secondary meaning "anxious, anxious, heart-tense", gay is used a little longer and is also used in local, slang dictionaries. You could say: “I feel gay”, “I'm gay”, “I'm gay”. In the student language of the 18th century, the joke education that followed became gay and, more commonly, gay people . In Gottfried August Bürger's ballad The Emperor and the Abbot it says:

No poor criminal feels more gay
Who stands in front of an embarrassing throat dish.

Another synonymous, pseudo-Latin word creation is gay bus . There is a connection between the two in an old student song:

Who only lets God rule
and hopes for him with beer and kiss,
which he does miraculously
in all gay buses.

The terms were later adopted from the student language in the common language.

In the Rhineland there is a surge of "excitement" in addition to being gay .

Gay in the sense of " homosexual ", which has the same word origin, has only been in use since the 19th century. Originally gay had no connection to it. Sometimes it is used in this regard as an ambiguous play on words or with euphemistic intent. It is seldom used as a synonym for male homosexuality, the more appropriate terms being gay and the seldom used gayness .

Web links

Wiktionary: Schwulität  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Ed.): Goethe's Conversations. Volume 1–10, Leipzig 1889–1896, Volume 10, pp. 40–44, 213–214, 1804 , mid-January - With Heinrich Voss and others : “Once in front of Verona, Goethe was attacked by hunters when he was drawing an old ruin . 'That made me gay,' he said, 'but I immediately considered the best: I pulled myself together, assumed all dignity and began a speech. [...] '"
  5. ^ Karl Albrecht, Rudolf Hildebrand: The Leipzig dialect: grammar and dictionary of the Leipzig people language; at the same time a contribution to the description of the vernacular in general , Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1881, p. 211: gay for sultry; Pf .; "I'm gay", afraid; therefore: to be in gay ibus, in fears;
  6. Johann Andreas Schmeller: Bavarian Dictionary: Collection of words and expressions that are used in the living dialects as well as in the older and oldest provincial literature of the Kingdom of Bavaria…. Cotta, 1836, p. 535: gay (Swabian, Rhine), anxious, anxious
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  10. Gottfried August Bürger: The Emperor and the Abbot , lines 47-48
  11. CB von Rag --- y (Berlin): Der Flotte Bursch - or - The latest completely complete collection of all boyish idioms and words in use now. Wilhelm Nauck, Leipzig 1831
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  14. " Schwul - Schwulität ", Rhenish dictionary, 9 volumes. Bonn / Berlin 1928–1971.
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  16. Hello, Gerda . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1979, pp. 38 ( Online - August 20, 1979 ).
  17. Chatter and giggle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1994, pp. 254-256 ( Online - Oct. 3, 1994 ).
  18. ^ Kronsbein: Thursday, July 25th . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1997, pp. 179 ( online - 21 July 1997 ). Quote: "Kerner: A German dilemma:" I'm gay and I want to get married. " Gays in gay communities. "
  19. Sebastian Borger : Church in Gays: Anglicans argue about the marriage of homosexual priests , Spiegel online, June 23, 2008
  20. Siegfried Schober: Idol of the last rock . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1976, p. 237 ( Online - Apr. 12, 1976 ).
  21. Hellmuth Karasek: The shock of being someone else . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1991, pp. 317-322 ( Online - Nov. 11, 1991 ).
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