gey
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- 7
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Definition of gey
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adv
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(Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable)Very.
“I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.”
“But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.”
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adv
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(Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable)Very.
“I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.”
“But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.”
adj
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(Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland)Fairly good; considerable.
“They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.”
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Etymology
Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.
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