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gey

[ gey ]

adverb

  1. Scot. considerably; very.


gey

/ ɡaɪ; ɡəɪ /

adverb

  1. dialect.
    (intensifier)

    it's gey cold

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gey1

First recorded in 1805–15; variant of gay
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gey1

variant of gay
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Example Sentences

"We did gey well," he resumed in his even monotone, like a man who was repeating something he had learned by heart.

So it was, that for a' the money we made we've been gey little the better o't, an' very much the worse o' it.

"You've surely been gey hard ca'd wherever you hae been," and there was a note of curiosity in her voice.

Wi' a' that he had upon his mind, it was gey and unlikely Mr. Soulis wad get muckle sleep.

His mother used to say of him that he was "gey ill to live with," and Miss Welsh whom he married had a fiery temper.

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