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minus-squaretwelve20two @slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoToday I learned a color, that its etymology is tied to pigeons, and that it’s also used (in certain contexts) to mean ideal as well as a slang term for gay (possibly as a pejorative?)
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months ago. . . Kinda, but I was talking only about color. Also it’s not perjorative. Perjorative version is гей which is transliteration of gay. Also сизый is color too. And сизый голубь is common pigeon.
Today I learned a color, that its etymology is tied to pigeons, and that it’s also used (in certain contexts) to mean ideal as well as a slang term for gay (possibly as a pejorative?)
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Kinda, but I was talking only about color. Also it’s not perjorative. Perjorative version is гей which is transliteration of gay.
Also сизый is color too. And сизый голубь is common pigeon.