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gayfaces

gayfaces is the plural of gayface.

Meaning of gayface

Noun

gayface (usually uncountable, plural gayfaces)

  1. (slang, usually) An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.
    • he has gayface
    Antonyms:
    straightface
  2. (slang, usually) The practice in which a straight person portrays a caricature of a gay person.
    • in gayface

Questions about gayfaces

What is gayfaces the plural of?
Gayfaces is the plural of gayface.

Words near gayfaces in the dictionary

  1. gayers
  2. gayest
  3. gayeties
  4. gayety
  5. gayface
  6. gayfaces
  7. gayfag
  8. gayfags
  9. gayfeather
  10. gayfeathers
  11. Gayfer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gayfaces (page history and authors); gayface (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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