enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

    www.aol.com/news/polari-lost-language-gay-men...

    To translate the above, knowing the words bona (good), vada (look), eek (face) and riah (hair) means Morrissey is singing, "So good to look, oh you, your lovely face and your lovely hair."

  3. LGBTQ slang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_slang

    LGBTQ slang, LGBTQ speak, queer slang, or gay slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.

  4. Category:LGBTQ slang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBTQ_slang

    This page was last edited on 23 September 2024, at 20:27 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Gayle language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_language

    Beaulah Bar in De Waterkant, Cape Town, takes its name from the Gayle word for "beautiful". [2]Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed.

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having...

    beard; a bearded man (archaic slang) aquatic rodent known for building dams woman's undepilated external genitalia (obscene slang) vagina (slang) bender: derogatory expression for a gay man, referring to the act of bending over to permit buggery. an expression for a binge drinking spree. bespoke

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

    www.aol.com/20-iconic-slang-words-black...

    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  8. What do teens mean when they say ‘sigma’? - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/teens-mean-sigma-000158935.html

    Urban Dictionary adds that sigma “is what all 10 year olds think they are.” As reported by British GQ, the word “sigma” was born from the misogynistic “manosphere. ...

  9. Swardspeak - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swardspeak

    Swardspeak (also known as salitang bakla (lit. 'gay speak') [1] or "gay lingo") is an argot or cant slang derived from Taglish (Tagalog-English code-switching) and used by a number of LGBT people in the Philippines.