gey

[gey]

adverb

Scot. considerably; very.

Origin of gey

First recorded in 1805–15; variant of gay

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Historical Examples of gey

It jingles well; and both Nanse and me thought it gey and pretty; but eh!
The Life of Mansie Wauch
David Macbeth Moir
On being asked what he knew, he said, "I ken a miller has aye a gey fat sou."
The Jest Book
Mark Lemon
It was gey like him, the photygraph, and so everybody kent it wasna the rale Art.
Erchie
(AKA Hugh Foulis) Neil Munro
I was throughither whiles in my young days, Miss Ross—no very, but gey.
Merkland
Mrs. Oliphant
It is a fact that it's a gey ill wind that blaws naebody good.
In Search of El Dorado
Alexander MacDonald

British Dictionary definitions for gey

gey

adverb

Scot and Northumbrian dialect (intensifier)it's gey cold

Word Origin for gey

variant of gay

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Word Origin and History for gey

adj.

a Scottish variant of gay, sometimes used 18c.-19c. with a sense of "considerable, pretty much, considerably." Cf. gray/grey.