Meaning

2 senses

  1. (dated, transitive, uncommon)To make happy or cheerful.

  2. (transitive, uncommon)To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.

Examples

439 sentences

  1. Is the club gay or straight?

    Це клуб для ґеїв чи для натуралів? — aandrusiak

    ruЭто клуб для геев или для натуралов? — aandrusiak

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. You didn't know Tom was gay?

    Ти не знав, що Том ґей? — deniko

    ruТы не знал, что Том гей? — marafon

    pinkfreud · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. There are no gay people here.

    Тут немає гомосексуалістів. — deniko

    ruЗдесь нет гомосексуалов. — odexed

    deEs gibt hier keine schwulen Leute. — Naina

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  4. I'm not gay, but my boyfriend is.

    Я не ґей, а от мій бойфренд — так. — deniko

    ruЯ не гей, но мой парень — да. — savella

    deIch bin nicht schwul, aber mein Freund schon. — Sudajaengi

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  5. Do you know of any gay clubs?

    Ви знаєте якийсь ґей-клуб? — aandrusiak

    deniko · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought

From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”). This is possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”), but Kroonen rejects this derivation and treats the Germanic word as having no known etymology.

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Forms

gays, gaying, gayed, gayed
Base formgay · to gay
3rd person singulargays
Present participlegaying
Past simplegayed
Past participlegayed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygay
he, she, itgays

Past simpleLesson

all personsgayed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gayed
he, she, ithas gayed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gay

Word family

2 related words
Relatedde-gayre-gay

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gawkgawpgaydargazeB2gazebo

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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