The GAYLE OF IT ALL

VAST! Is a word currently fashionable with hipsters, fashionista’s and Cape Town nightclubbers to mean something extraordinary and exceptional.

Silla/Cilla = Cigarette
Dora = Drink
Patsy = Party
Lettie / Dyke / Crack Snaker = Lesbian
Fish = Female
Kitten = Cute young guy
Harry = a good looking guy
Sally = a good looking woman
Tic Tac = guy with a small Penis
Kosher = Circumcised guy
Kitty Claws = Big hands...
Bettie Bangles = Cop with cuffs
Kitty Catch Wagon = Police Van
Abigail = Middle aged Conservative closeted gay
Nora = if a person is dumb or stupid
Hilda = something Hiddious
Drag Queen / Drag King = Dressed as a Girl / Guy
Fag Hag = Str8 woman who spends most of her time with gay guys
Dutch Boy = Str8 or Gay guys that likes to hang out with Lesbians

Gayle, or Gail, is an English and Afrikaans-based gay argot or cant slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speakinghomosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed. The equivalent language used by homosexual South African men who speak Bantu languages is called IsiNgqumo, and is based on a Nguni lexicon.

Gayle originally manifested as moffietaal (Afrikaans: literally, "homosexual language") in the drag culture of the Cape Colouredcommunity in the 1950s. It permeated into white homosexual circles in the 1960s and became part of mainstream white gay culture through South African Airways "koffie-moffies" (Afrikaans: literally, "coffee gay men", a slang name for male flight attendants) in the 1970s.

Besides a few core words borrowed from Polari (such as the word varda meaning "to see", itself a borrowing from Lingua Franca), most of Gayle's words are alliterative formations using women's names, such as Beulah for "beauty", Priscilla, meaning "police", andHilda for "hideous". Men, especially other homosexual men, are often referred to by female pronouns in some circles, as is the custom among many homosexual countercultures throughout the world.

Gayle arose for the same reason that most antilanguages develop in marginalised communities—to have a secret language in an oppressive society. However it also fulfilled other functions such as to "camp up" conversation, and provide entertainment in a subculture where verbal wit and repartee are highly valued.

So which do you know?

Dora = Dot
Police = Priscilla
Jail = Priscilla Lodge
Church = Connie Francis or Connie
Dead = Deborah/Delia
Funeral = Deborah/Delia patsy
Small = mitzy
Vast - have to be taken in context; could mean big as in a vast Lana, or could simply be used as an affirmative to respond to what someone said
Chicken = underage or young guys
Chicken hawk - someone who like underage or young guys
Family - used to refer to someone who is gay e.g He is "family"
Nancy - no
Shiela - simply means crap/negative or not nice, as in "That is vast shiela"
Linda - lie, as in telling lies
Lesbian - Letitia
Fruit fly - a str8 guy who hangs out with gay guys, usually in the hope of catching a fag hag
Rachel - rape
Ursula - understand 
Car - Pram
Beaulah - beautiful 
Paula - posh