Definition of gayer Gayer

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What does gayer mean?

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gayer, adjective, comparative of gay.

WordNet

Adjective gay, gaier, gaiest
gay - full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"
		jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful
		joyous full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"
gay - homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
		queer, homophile
		homosexual sexually attracted to members of your own sex
gay - offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
		festal, festive, merry
		joyous full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"
gay - given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies"
gay - bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile"
		cheery, sunny
		cheerful being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
gay - brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"
		brave, braw
		colourful, colorful having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves"

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Wiktionary

gay (Noun)
A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
gay (Noun)
An ornament.
gay (Noun)
The name of the letter ⟨—⟩, which stands for the sound , in Pitman shorthand .
gay (Adjective)
Happy, joyful, and lively.
gay (Adjective)
1405 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales.
gay (Adjective)
Line 221 To bringe me gaye thinges fro the fayre.
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Line 236 Why is my neighebores wyf so gay?
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Line 298 That I was born, and make me fresh and gay.
gay (Adjective)
Line 508 But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay.
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Line 545 For ever yet I lovede to be gay.
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Walsh William Walch , preface to Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant, in John Dryden , The Fourth Part of Miſcellany Poems, Jacob Tonson publisher, 1716, page 338.
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Never was there a more copious Fancy or greater reach of Wit, than what appears in Dr. Donne; nothing can be more gallant or gentile than the poems of Mr. Waller; nothing more gay or ſprightly than thoſe of Sir John Suckling; and nothing fuller of Variety and Learning than Mr. Cowley’s.
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Author=Baroness Emmuska Orczy .
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1934, Marion George Marion Jr. et al. , title.
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The Gay Divorcee.
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1974, , Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 25.
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The excitement engendered by the decision to die perked him right up;he had not felt so gay for ages.
gay (Adjective)
Festive, bright, or colourful.
gay (Adjective)
Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.
gay (Adjective)
1881, J. P. McCaskey editor, “Deck the Hall”, Franklin Square Song Collection, number 1, Harper & Brothers New York, page 120.
gay (Adjective)
Don we now our gay apparel.
gay (Adjective)
1944, Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
gay (Adjective)
Make the Yule-tide gay / From now on our troubles will be miles away.
gay (Adjective)
Sexually promiscuous of either gender.
gay (Adjective)
Homosexual.
gay (Adjective)
Possessing sexual and emotional attraction towards members of the same gender or sex.
gay (Adjective)
1947, Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques, p. 24.
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He was not happy at the farm and went to a Western city where he associated with a homosexual crowd, being "gay," and wearing female clothes and makeup.
gay (Adjective)
2003, Michael McAvennie, The World Wrestling Entertainment Yearbook.
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She couldn't even gain access from a family friend whose name was on the list, nor could she use her feminine charms to turn on the staff member, who revealed he was gay and was more impressed seeing Billy and Chuck enter the building.
gay (Adjective)
2009, Betty Jean Lifton, Lost & Found: the Adoption Experience, page 6.
gay (Adjective)
Her adoptive mother fainted when Gail told her she was gay.
gay (Adjective)
2010, Noėl Sturgeon, Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural, page 128.
gay (Adjective)
In fact, as several letter writers to the New York Times pointed out in their response to the article, the disjuncture between these two popularized penguins shows how radically separated from each other are communities of gay people and communities of right-wing religious conservatives: if the Christian fundamentalists had looked up “gay penguins” or even “penguins” on the Internet, they would have encountered several gay penguin sites, including the story of Roy and Silo, the Central Park Zoo gay penguin couple about whom a children's book was written; the saga of the gay penguin community at a German zoo; and the campaign of Gay Penguin for President.
gay (Adjective)
Being between two people of the same gender or the same sex; especially, being between two men.
gay (Adjective)
Gay marriage, though legal here, is still very controversial.
gay (Adjective)
Although the number of gay weddings has increased significantly, many gay and lesbian couples — like many straight couples — are not interested in getting married.
gay (Adjective)
Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
gay (Adjective)
She professes an undying love for gay bars and gay movies, and even admits to having watched gay porn.
gay (Adjective)
2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 26.
gay (Adjective)
He might well have suspected Cheek was a gay bar without seeing any of its patrons, simply because it was in a neighborhood where most of the bars were gay, and because you couldn't see in the windows.
gay (Adjective)
2004, Martin Hughes, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London, page 20.
gay (Adjective)
Turn left into chilled-out Old Compton St and try to guess which bars are gay. Even the straight bars in Soho are quite gay, so it's often a bit hard to tell.
gay (Adjective)
2010, Jay Mohr, No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales from a Stand-Up Dad, page 25.
gay (Adjective)
Again I was to masturbate into a cup and again the majority of the porn was gay.
gay (Adjective)
In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people.
gay (Adjective)
Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
gay (Adjective)
Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
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Jason Christopher Hartley, “October 23, 200 This Is My Weapon, This Is My Gerber”, in Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq, HarperCollins 2005, ISBN 0-06-084366-7, page 25.
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This incident has become a source of much discussion, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick.
gay (Adjective)
Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
gay (Adjective)
This game is gay; let’s play a different one. = I dislike this game; let’s play a different one.
gay (Adjective)
1996, Lisa's Date With Density, The Simpsons cartoon television series. Upon discovering Nelson kissing Lisa.
gay (Adjective)
Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!".
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Jimbo: "That is so gay!".
gay (Adjective)
2000, Nancy Updike, That's So Gay, Salon.
gay (Adjective)
You or someone you know has declared something gay in the last week. Not gay as in homosexual, but gay in that grade-school "That is so gay!" way, i. e. lame, wrongheaded, queer in the original sense. This is happening all around you. That woman’s hairdo? Gay. That book jacket? Gay. The fact that Dick and Lynne Cheney won’t talk about their lesbian daughter? Gay gay gay.
gay (Adjective)
Upright or curved over the back.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

gay (superl.)
Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
gay (superl.)
Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
gay (superl.)
Loose; dissipated; lewd.
gay (n.)
An ornament

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

gay
Characteristic of homosexual appearance or behavior.
gay
In good spirits.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

gay
gā, adj. lively: bright: sportive, merry: wanton, dissipated, of loose life: showy: (prov.) spotted.—adv. (Scot.) fairly, considerably.—ns. Gai′ety, Gay′ety, Gay′ness.—advs. Gai′ly, Gay′ly; Gay′some, gladsome.—Gay science, a rendering of gai saber, the Provençal name for the art of poetry. [O. Fr. gai—Old High Ger. wâhi, pretty, not gâhi, swift (Diez).]

Wikipedia

Gay traditionally means 'happy,' but in English it also means homosexual. This meaning is more common now. The word gay refers to a person who is sexually interested or romantically attracted to people of the same sex. It can apply to both men and women, but a more common word for a gay woman is a lesbian.

Gay in LGBT.

LGBT is an acronym that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Together these people make up a community – a group of people who work together. In this case it is also people who suffer the same kinds of discrimination.

Sometimes the LGBT community is also called the gay community. 'Lesbian community' would only refer to women who prefer women as partners. But "gay community" could mean either men who prefer men as partners or the whole LGBT community.

Gay can be used in the plural (Gays) to mean the gay male community or even the whole LGBT community.

Gay versus homosexual.

Many gay people prefer the term 'gay' to 'homosexual'. The word homosexual "means" someone who is attracted to people of the same gender. But the "focus" of the word homosexual is on sex. The word gay talks about the whole person, not just what kind of sex partners he has.

People in the LGBT community usually use the term gay. However people who speak English are more likely to use the word 'homosexual.' Homophobic literally means people who are afraid of homosexuals. Some homophobic people may fear LGBT people. But usually they "hate" instead of fear.

Gay and straight.

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