• Gayface

    Origin

    From gay + face

    Full definition of gayface

    Noun

    gayface

    (usually uncountable; plural gayfaces)
    1. An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.
      • Details, Volume 27, Issues 7-9Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface.

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