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gayface

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English

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Etymology

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From gay +‎ face.

Noun

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gayface (usually uncountable, plural gayfaces)

  1. (rare, slang) An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.
    Antonym: straightface
    he has gayface
    • Details, Volume 27, Issues 7-9
      Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface.
  2. (rare) The practice in which a straight person portrays a caricature of a gay person.
    Coordinate terms: transface; blackface, whiteface, redface, yellowface, brownface
    in gayface

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