8. in a gay manner. [1275–1325; < Old French < Germanic; compare Old High German gāhi fast, sudden] gay′ness, n. usage: gay has had senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. gay...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook bros (redirected fromBross) Related to Bross:Brose bro (brō) n.pl.brosSlang 1.A brother. 2.Friend; pal. Used as a form of familiar address for a man or boy:So long, bro. ...
(formerly) a prostitute available to be called on at a brothel. Discover More Word History and Origins Origin ofcall girl1 An Americanism dating back to 1930–35 Discover More Example Sentences “You’re not just doing that whole old-person thing where you call girls cutesy names ’cause you...
An aerialist who keeps her circus afloat with her dazzling escapades, Sophie Fevvers was born with the nubs of wings on her shoulder-blades. Unceremoniously dumped in a brothel as a baby, she spends her childhood working as a living statue — a role that picks up steam when puberty blesses...
a.The collection of cells that has developed from the fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal, before all the major organs have developed. b.A collection of such cells of a human, especially from implantation in the uterine wall through the eighth week of development. ...
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a brothel; whorehouse. Discover More Word History and Origins Origin ofcathouse1 1595–1605,for earlier sense of “siege tower”; 1930–35 for current sense;cat(def)(in obsolete sense of “prostitute”) +house Discover More Example Sentences ...
COMMISSION, contracts, civ. law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. (q.v.) Ruth. Inst. 105; Halifax, Analysis of the Civil Law, 70. If the service the party undertakes to...
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