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gaying up

gaying up is the present participle and gerund of gay up.

Meaning of gay up

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To make something more appealing to the gay community e.g. by adding gay characters to a soap opera.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To give something gay characteristics.

Questions about gaying up

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

Words near gaying up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaying up (page history and authors); gay up (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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