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gey

gey adverb: very.

Adverb

gey (not comparable)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland) Very.
    • I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 207
    • But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, page 213

Adjective

gey (comparative geyer, superlative geyest)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland) Fairly good; considerable.
    • They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16

Forms of gey

comparativegeyer
superlativegeyest

Origin of gey

Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.

Questions about gey

What does gey mean?
Gey means very.
What part of speech is gey?
Gey can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near gey in the dictionary

  1. gewogs
  2. Gewürztraminer
  3. Gewürztraminers
  4. gex
  5. gexing
  6. gey
  7. geyer
  8. geyerite
  9. geyerites
  10. geyest
  11. Geylang

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