Gay \Gay\, n.
An ornament [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gay \Gay\ (g[=a]), a. [Compar. Gayer; superl. Gayest.] [F.
gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g?hi swift, rapid, G. g[aum]h, j[aum]h,
steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w?hi beatiful, good. Cf. Jay.]
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1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or
delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
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Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. --Pope.
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Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. --Gray.
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2. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
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Why is my neighbor's wife so gay? --Chaucer.
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A bevy of fair women, richly gay
In gems and wanton dress! --Milton.
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3. Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]
Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly,
sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial;
joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gay
adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery
hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: cheery,
sunny]
2: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such
a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the
reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: jocund, jolly, jovial,
merry, mirthful]
3: given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led
a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the
ladies"
4: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new
dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish
word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with
gay plumage" [syn: brave, braw]
5: offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the
inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and
exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gala(a), festal,
festive, merry]
6: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: queer, homophile(a)]
n : someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual
attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: homosexual,
homo]
WordNet (r) 2.0
198 Moby Thesaurus words for "gay":
AC-DC, abandoned, addled, alert, amphierotic, animate, animated,
antic, autoerotic, beaming, beatific, beatified, beery, bemused,
besotted, bisexed, bisexual, blessed, blind drunk, blissful,
blithe, blithesome, boon, brash, brave, bravura, braw, bright,
bright-hued, brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burning, butch,
cant, capering, capersome, carefree, cheerful, chichi, chipper,
chirping, colorful, colory, coltish, confident, convivial,
crapulent, crapulous, dancing, daring, dashing, debauched,
debonair, deep-colored, deviant, devil-may-care, dissipated,
dissolute, dizzy, drenched, dressy, drunk, drunken, effeminate,
effervescent, exhibitionistic, exotic, exuberant, far-gone, fast,
festal, festive, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flushed with joy,
flustered, forward, fou, free, free and easy, frilly, frisky,
frolicsome, frothy, full, full of beans, gala, gallant, gamesome,
garish, gaudy, gay-colored, giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful,
glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, hail-fellow-well-met,
happy, hearty, high-colored, high-spirited, hilarious, homoerotic,
homophile, homosexual, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious,
intense, intoxicated, inverted, jaunty, jazzy, jocund, jolly,
jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, keen, laughing, leaping, lesbian,
licentious, light-hearted, lighthearted, lively, mannish,
many-colored, maudlin, mellow, merry, merrymaking, mirthful,
muddled, nappy, on the loose, overweening, perverted, playful,
presuming, profligate, purring, pushful, pushy, queer, radiant,
raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reeling, rich,
rich-colored, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, sapphic,
self-assertive, shikker, showy, singing, skittish, smiling,
smirking, snazzy, sodden, sotted, sparkling, spirited, splashy,
splurgy, sportive, sporty, sprightly, starry-eyed, thrice happy,
tiddly, tipsy, transvestite, tribadistic, unbridled,
under the influence, vital, vivacious, vivid, wild, zestful,
zippy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Gay, GA (town, FIPS 32384)
Location: 33.09367 N, 84.57400 W
Population (1990): 133 (64 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Gay, MI
Zip code(s): 49945
Gay, WV
Zip code(s): 25244
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Gay, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 149
Housing Units (2000): 69
Land area (2000): 0.860788 sq. miles (2.229431 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.860788 sq. miles (2.229431 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32384
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.093797 N, 84.573924 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gay, GA
Gay
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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