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gayish

gayish adjective: somewhat cheerful.

Adjective

gayish (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Somewhat cheerful.
    • Her attire was gayish. There was about her a great deal of mauve and black and white […]1914, Baroness Von Hutten, Helping Hersey, page 231
  2. (informal) Somewhat homosexual.
    • So, the police conducted a New Year's Eve raid in 1967 on a gayish bar over on Sunset and Sanborn in Silver Lake called the Black Cat.1994, Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders, Judd Marmor, Growing up before Stonewall: life stories of some gay men, page 26

Origin of gayish

From gay + -ish.

Questions about gayish

What does gayish mean?
Gayish means somewhat cheerful.
What part of speech is gayish?
Gayish is an adjective.

Words near gayish in the dictionary

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

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