With gay abandon

English - US. I like your definition. She danced with gay abandon : happily, without worrying about anything else. Majorbloodnok Senior Member. British English - Southern England. Yes, approximately. It's become a stock phrase, although it's becoming increasingly avoided because of the connection of the word "gay" with homosexuality.

gay abandon

Of course, what has driven these words to change is a link between someone's social rank in a hierarchical society and perceptions of those people as being good or bad because of their rank. In essence, if you were working class and poor, you tended to be seen as a lower, less moral kind of person, so the words used to label you tended to shift down the scale of meaning from neutral to pejorative as time went on, while the opposite was true for the richer and higher status people.

with gay abandon

Up north and down south: prepositions for expressing directions. Add to word list Add to word list. We danced with wild abandon. We've been using fossil fuels with gay abandon. Peter mixed different styles of clothes with wild abandon. She ordered food and drinks with gay abandon.

Significance of Dance in gay abandon

If people go on killing birds at the present rate our country would soon become a rookery without rooks. Rookery without rooks. Quorn produce upset to beat league leaders. Some city ragamuffins though sprawl in gay abandon along the almost unused thoroughfares and at shop verandas, deep in slumber, perhaps to hibernate from the forlornness of the city.