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gaying

gaying is the present participle and gerund 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 gaying

Questions about gaying

What is gaying the present participle and gerund of?
Gaying is the present participle and gerund of gay.

Words near gaying in the dictionary

  1. gayification
  2. gayified
  3. gayifies
  4. gayify
  5. gayifying
  6. gaying
  7. gaying up
  8. gayish
  9. gayism
  10. gayization
  11. Gayla

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaying (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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