gay
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Is gay a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of gay?
Definition
adj (English)
1. Homosexual:Examples: "Cliff is gay, but his twin brother is straight."; "He was not happy at the farm and went to a Western city where he associated with a homosexual crowd, being "gay," and wearing female clothes and makeup."; "She couldn't even gain access from a family friend whose name was on the list, nor could she use her feminine charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more impressed seeing Billy and Chuck enter the building."
2. Homosexual:Examples: "gay and lesbian people"
3. Homosexual:Examples: "In fact, as several letter writers to the New York Times pointed out in their response to the article, the disjuncture between these two popularized penguins shows how radically separated from each other are communities of gay people and communities of right-wing religious conservatives: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up "gay penguins" or even "penguins" on the Internet, they would have encountered several gay penguin sites, including the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay penguin couple about whom a children's book was written; the saga of the gay penguin community at a German zoo; and the campaign of Gay Penguin for President (whose slogan was "George W. Bush talks the talk, but Gay Penguin walks the walk.")"broadly
4. Homosexual:Examples: "Although the number of gay weddings has increased significantly, many gay and lesbian couples — like many straight couples — are not interested in getting married."; "gay marriage"; "gay sex"
5. Homosexual:Synonyms: queercolloquial
6. Homosexual:Examples: "She professes an undying love for gay bars and gay movies, and even admits to having watched gay porn."; "Gays meet each other in special-interest social groups—gay softball leagues, gay bike clubs, gay gymnasia, gay activist political organizations, the Gay Academic Union (an organization for gay teachers, scholars and students), gay university student clubs and so on."; "He might well have suspected Cheek was a gay bar without seeing any of its patrons, simply because it was in a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and because you couldn't see in the windows."
noun (English)
1. (now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.Examples: "[headline] N.Y. Gays: Will the Spark Die?"; ""Same-sex dancing, as we call it, is quite legal," a gay named Lew Todd, who was one of the spokesmen, spoke up."; "Yet that does not mean that the issues, concerns and attitudes of gays and lesbians in the workplace are not important."in-plural
2. (informal, often derogatory or ironic) Gayness: the quality of being gay.Examples: "Anti-gay persecution holds that you can pray the gay out of a person, or scare it out of them, or cajole it out of them."derogatoryinformalironicoften
3. (dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.Examples: "At a stall soon Mary bote / A hume-book full ov gays."; "I had no books to read, but plenty of gays to look at."; "‘Can't you mow the aftermath in the churchyard before Sunday?’ ‘Not time enough, sir, but I'll cut off they gays.’"dialectalobsolete
4. (obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.Examples: "Look upon precepts in emblems, as they do to upon gays and pictures."; "If however the stranger be suspected of “sailing under false colours," when they are all in familiar chat about nothing in particular, “Cousin Jacky” will take occasion to say to the new chum, “My dear; ded 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay?" […] no more deceived by him than a duck can be made to clunk (swallow) a gay (fragment of broken crockery)."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.Examples: "SAYING GOOD-BYE (song) WE are always saying / "Good-bye, good-bye! / In work, in playing, / In gloom, in gaying […]"; "Gaying Things Up For Christmas. JESSIE TODD, Laboratory School, University of Chicago. EVERY schoolroom in America is gayed up for Christmas."datedtransitiveuncommon
2. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.transitiveuncommon
adv (English)
1. (Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.Examples: "And, tho' his guts ware lank and toom, / They're twice as big's this gay big room."; "Now, to end my story, if o' t' village beauties wad git t' religion that good auld parson Jenkins recommends, it wad gay sharply mak' t' dirty women clean, […]"; "[…] an' be t' Silver Cwove, an' than throo t' Pillar, an' a gay rough bit o' grund it is!"Northern-EnglandScotland
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary