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gayed

gayed is the simple past and past participle of gay.

Meaning of gay

Verb

gay (third-person singular simple present gays, present participle gaying, simple past and past participle gayed)

  1. (dated, transitive, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
    • SAYING GOOD-BYE (song)
      WE are always saying / "Good-bye, good-bye! / In work, in playing, / In gloom, in gaying […]1922, Thomas Hardy, Late lyrics and earlier: with many other verses, page 119
  2. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.

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Phrases with gayed

Questions about gayed

What is gayed the simple past and past participle of?
Gayed is the simple past and past participle of gay.

Words near gayed in the dictionary

  1. Gaydos
  2. Gaydoses
  3. Gaydu
  4. gaydy
  5. Gaye
  6. gayed
  7. gayed up
  8. gayelle
  9. gayelles
  10. gayer
  11. gayers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gayed (page history and authors); gay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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