gey
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of gey
First recorded in 1805–15; variant of gay
Example Sentences
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When the splash occurs, it will be a veritable gey ser, also six times as high as on earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ballerinas jet up like natural gey sers in grandiose one-handed lifts, only to plummet a moment later in balletic kamikaze dives.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a gey mysterious world, and women’s the uncanniest things in’t.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
It's a gey hard, step-motherly kind o' world this for some folk; but you—weel, I wad say ye've your fu' share o' blessin's.'
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
“If you saw a grand man gey fond o’ a flower, what would you think?”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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