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gey - What does it mean?

Definition of 'gey'

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • (Scotland|Ireland|northern England) Very.
  • * 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:
  • I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (Scotland|Ireland|northern England) Fairly good; considerable.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
  • *:They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.
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    Similar to 'gey'

    guy, goy, ghey, gay