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▸ noun: A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
▸ noun: A male given name from English. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
▸ adjective: Homosexual:
▸ adjective: (of a person) Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself. [from 1950]
▸ adjective: (strictly) Describing a homosexual man.
▸ adjective: (of an animal, by extension) Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
▸ adjective: (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.
▸ adjective: (colloquial) Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
▸ adjective: (of an institution or group) Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
▸ adjective: (slang, with for) Homosexually in love with someone.
▸ adjective: (slang, humorous, with for) Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
▸ adjective: In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
▸ adjective: (loosely, of appearance or behavior) Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
▸ adjective: (loosely, of a person, especially a man) Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
▸ adjective: A pejorative:
▸ adjective: (slang, derogatory) Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
▸ adjective: (slang, derogatory) Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
▸ adjective: (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
▸ adjective: (dated) Quick, fast.
▸ adjective: (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
▸ adjective: (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
▸ adjective: (Scotland, Northern England, possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
▸ noun: (now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
▸ noun: (dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.
▸ verb: (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
▸ verb: (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
▸ adverb: (Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.
▸ noun: The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
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