gayelle

See also: Gayelle

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish gallera (“cockfight arena”).

Noun

gayelle (plural gayelles)

1. (Caribbean, chiefly Trinidad and Tobago) An informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.
   • 1975, Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, Giant talk: an anthology of Third World writings, link:

     And that time Bolo is coming through the village to the gayelle...

   • 1997, Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster‎^[1], page 21:

     I who have the best gamecocks from here to Maraval, and win twenty-nine battles with Hawk alone before they poison him near the gayelle in Valencia when we went to fight.

   • 2004, Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: culture in action : the Trinidad experience‎^[2], page 293:

     Stickfighters usually frequent a particular gayelle, which may have a recognized champion.

Etymology 2

From gay + French -elle (“feminine suffix”).

Noun

gayelle (plural gayelles)

1. (neologism, rare, nonstandard) A lesbian.
   • 2008 January 25, “Lesbians turn "gayelle"”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[3]:

     "By choosing gayelle, the feminine factors in “the equation of who is gay and who is not” can reassert their interest in the word gay, as well as, assert a displeasure for the word lesbian," the website reads.

   • 2011 January 26, tootie, “More labia-loving lesbos cumin' out in Hollywood”, in soc.culture.usa‎^[4] (Usenet):

     Geri Jewell, who played Blair Warner's cousin Geri for a few seasons, has fully come out as a labia-loving lesbian in her new memoir!!! Cousin Geri not only talks about being a gayelle, but she also writes about being the first person with a disability to play a recurring character on TV and how she hit rock bottom when she got into the bad shit.

   • 2018 June 11, Simon Abrams, Alex de Campi, “The Pros and Cons of 'Ocean's 8'”, in Hollywood Reporter:

     Cate Blanchett, whose leather and velvet and satin wardrobe was handed down from Lesbian Jesus specifically for the enjoyment of gayelles everywhere!