Gay

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gay \Gay\, n.
     An ornament [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Gay \Gay\ (g[=a]), a. [Compar. {Gayer}; superl. {Gayest}.] [F.
     gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g?hi swift, rapid, G. g[aum]h, j[aum]h,
     steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w?hi beatiful, good. Cf. {Jay}.]
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     1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or
        delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
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              Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. --Pope.
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              Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed.      --Gray.
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     2. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
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              Why is my neighbor's wife so gay?     --Chaucer.
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              A bevy of fair women, richly gay
              In gems and wanton dress!             --Milton.
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     3. Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]
  
     Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly,
          sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial;
          joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gay
       adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery
              hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: {cheery},
               {sunny}]
       2: 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" [syn: {jocund}, {jolly}, {jovial},
           {merry}, {mirthful}]
       3: given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led
          a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the
          ladies"
       4: 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" [syn: {brave}, {braw}]
       5: offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the
          inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and
          exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: {gala(a)}, {festal},
           {festive}, {merry}]
       6: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: {queer}, {homophile(a)}]
       n : someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual
           attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: {homosexual},
            {homo}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  198 Moby Thesaurus words for "gay":
     AC-DC, abandoned, addled, alert, amphierotic, animate, animated,
     antic, autoerotic, beaming, beatific, beatified, beery, bemused,
     besotted, bisexed, bisexual, blessed, blind drunk, blissful,
     blithe, blithesome, boon, brash, brave, bravura, braw, bright,
     bright-hued, brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burning, butch,
     cant, capering, capersome, carefree, cheerful, chichi, chipper,
     chirping, colorful, colory, coltish, confident, convivial,
     crapulent, crapulous, dancing, daring, dashing, debauched,
     debonair, deep-colored, deviant, devil-may-care, dissipated,
     dissolute, dizzy, drenched, dressy, drunk, drunken, effeminate,
     effervescent, exhibitionistic, exotic, exuberant, far-gone, fast,
     festal, festive, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flushed with joy,
     flustered, forward, fou, free, free and easy, frilly, frisky,
     frolicsome, frothy, full, full of beans, gala, gallant, gamesome,
     garish, gaudy, gay-colored, giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful,
     glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, hail-fellow-well-met,
     happy, hearty, high-colored, high-spirited, hilarious, homoerotic,
     homophile, homosexual, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious,
     intense, intoxicated, inverted, jaunty, jazzy, jocund, jolly,
     jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, keen, laughing, leaping, lesbian,
     licentious, light-hearted, lighthearted, lively, mannish,
     many-colored, maudlin, mellow, merry, merrymaking, mirthful,
     muddled, nappy, on the loose, overweening, perverted, playful,
     presuming, profligate, purring, pushful, pushy, queer, radiant,
     raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reeling, rich,
     rich-colored, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, sapphic,
     self-assertive, shikker, showy, singing, skittish, smiling,
     smirking, snazzy, sodden, sotted, sparkling, spirited, splashy,
     splurgy, sportive, sporty, sprightly, starry-eyed, thrice happy,
     tiddly, tipsy, transvestite, tribadistic, unbridled,
     under the influence, vital, vivacious, vivid, wild, zestful,
     zippy
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Gay, GA (town, FIPS 32384)
    Location: 33.09367 N, 84.57400 W
    Population (1990): 133 (64 housing units)
    Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Gay, MI
    Zip code(s): 49945
  Gay, WV
    Zip code(s): 25244

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Gay, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
     Population (2000):    149
     Housing Units (2000): 69
     Land area (2000):     0.860788 sq. miles (2.229431 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.860788 sq. miles (2.229431 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            32384
     Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
     Location:             33.093797 N, 84.573924 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Gay, GA
      Gay