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Polari (from Italian parlare 'to talk') is a form of slang or cant historically used in Britain by some actors, circus and fairground showmen, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and sex workers, and particularly among the gay subculture.
Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."
As gay slang Fruit as gay slang or slur is amongst the lexicon of the cant slang Polari used in the gay subculture in Britain, which has become more mainstream with transcontinental travel and online communication. [15] There is still debate about how Polari originated but its origins can be traced back to at least the 19th century [16] and has multiple origins and routes of dissemination with ...
In his 1972 book Gay Talk, writer Bruce Rodgers traces the term camp to 16th century British theatre, where it referred to men dressed as women (drag). [5][23] Camp may have derived from the gay slang Polari, [24] which borrowed the term from the Italian campare,[25][21] or from the French term se camper, meaning "to pose in an exaggerated ...
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. [1][2] The acronym LGBT was popularized in the 1990s and stands for Lesbian ...
Troll as gay slang is amongst the lexicon of the cant Polari used in the gay subculture in Britain which has become more mainstream with transcontinental travel and online communication. There is still debate about how Polari originated but its origins can be traced back to at least the 19th century. The term troll may have become equated with ...
Cottaging. The appearance of public lavatories, like this one in Pond Square, Camden, London, is the origin of the term cottaging. Cottaging is a gay slang term, originating from the United Kingdom, referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a "cottage" [1] or "tea-room" [2]), [3] or cruising for sexual partners with the ...
For instance, coining the Polari term "vada," meaning "to see," required no particular ingenuity -- the word comes directly from the Italian verb of the same meaning, with just a bit of phonetic alteration.