gay
IPA: gˈeɪ
Root Word: Gay
noun
- An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
- A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
- A male given name from English. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
- (now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- (dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
- (obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.
- The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
verb
- (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
adjective
- Homosexual:
- (of a person) Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
- (strictly) Describing a homosexual man.
- (of an animal, by extension) Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
- (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
- (colloquial) Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
- (of an institution or group) Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
- (slang, with for) Homosexually in love with someone.
- (slang, humorous, with for) Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
- In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
- (loosely, of appearance or behavior) Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
- (loosely, of a person, especially a man) Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
- A pejorative:
- (slang, derogatory) Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
- (slang, derogatory) Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
- (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
- (dated) Quick, fast.
- (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
- (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
- (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
- (Scotland, Northern England, possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
adverb
- (Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.
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Examples of "gay" in Sentences
- - Little gay· chapero - gay bitch· Bastardo - Bastard·
- * Dwight is "researching" gays by looking at gay porn because they found out Oscar was gay*
- As a person who is in the middle of college , I still hear the term gay thrown around quite a bit.
- What a waste Mark is gay...reminds me of a song with dis line ~~all d handsome men are gay~~...haha...
- Sen. Mark Grisanti of Buffalo, who was elected in the fall, told a public forum that he won't vote for a bill that uses the term "gay marriage," a spokesman said.
- -- And you, my young friend, Master Augustine, shall be looked after as well as if you came with a gay brow and a light cheek, such as best becomes the _gay science_. "
- As a matter of fact, the "New York Times" reported, "While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label 'gay minister.'"
- Because it turns out the guy who owns the car, expensive car, by the way, is the owner of a nightclub, and he had on his license plate the term gay, bi-gay, which is, by the way, the name of his club.
- If a gay man and a gay* woman marry each other it happens would you think it is equally dissembling if they referred to it as a different-sex marriage instead of a straight marriage or a heterosexual marriage?
- While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label "gay minister," and pursued a much wider range of studies, on early American religions, Elizabethan Puritanism, church music and the African-American experience.
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