Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 07:55:11 -0500

From: Alan Slotkin ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU

Subject: Re: Queries: GAY; SEE WITH ONES HEELS



The 8th ed. of Partridge's work cites GAY as "slightly intoxicated"

19th-20th c.; as "impudent, impertinent, presumptuous" US (--1899). Crane

does indeed use it in the New York Sketches as the Random House dictionary

notes.



Alan Slotkin

ars7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]tntech.edu