Gay

Adjective

 * 1)  Happy, joyful, and lively.
 * 2) * 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Life of Thomas Yalden." The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper; including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the Most Approved Translations, Alexander Chalmers, ed; 21 volumes, London, C. Wittingham, 1810
 * Never was there a more copious fancy or greater reach of wit than what appears in Dr. Donne; nothing can be more gallant or genteel than the poems of Mr. Waller; nothing more gay or sprightly than those of sir John Suckling; and nothing fuller of variety and learning than Mr. Cowley’s.
 * 1) * 1934, The Gay Divorcee
 * "like the carefree team of Rogers and Astaire, "The Gay Divorcee" is gay in its mood and smart in its approach." Andre Sennwald, New York Times, November 16, 1934
 * 1)  Festive, bright, or colourful.
 * Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.
 * 1) * 1881, J. P. McCaskey (editor), “Deck the Hall [sic]”, Franklin Square Song Collection, number 1, Harper & Brothers (New York), page 120
 * Don we now our gay apparel
 * 1) * 1944, Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * Make the Yule-tide gay / From now on our troubles will be miles away
 * 1) Homosexual.
 * 2)  Characteristic of homosexual appearance or behavior (often in a stereotypical sense).
 * 3) * 2005, Jason Christopher Hartley, Just Another Soldier: a year on the ground in Iraq
 * This incident has become a source of much discussion, and the jury is still out on who is more gay: the guy who touched a dick or the guy who let a guy touch his dick. One could write volumes about the homophobically homoerotic undercurrents in the infantry.
 * 1)  effeminate or flamboyant in behavior
 * 2)  Used to express dislike: Lame, uncool, stupid.
 * 3) * 1996, Lisa's Date With Density, The Simpsons (cartoon television series). Upon discovering Nelson kissing Lisa:
 * Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!"
 * Jimbo: "That is so gay!"
 * 1) * 2000, Nancy Updike, That's So Gay, Salon
 * [Y]ou or someone you know has declared something gay in the last week. Not gay as in homosexual, but gay in that grade-school "That is so gay!" way, i.e. lame, wrongheaded, queer in the original sense. This is happening all around you. That woman’s hairdo? Gay. That book jacket? Gay. The fact that Dick and Lynne Cheney won’t talk about their lesbian daughter? Gay gay gay.
 * This game is gay; let’s play a different one. = I dislike this game; let’s play a different one.
 * 1)  Upright or curved over the back.
 * 2) * 1997, Michael DeVine, Border Collies
 * While the dog in concentrating at a given task, the tail is carried low and used for balance. In excitement it may rise level with the back. A “gay” tail is a fault.
 * 1) * 2000, David Leavitt, Martin Bauman; or, a Sure Thing
 * By now Nora had left my side and was grappling with Maisie, trying to hold her still long enough to examine her bit. “You haven’t trained her well,” she muttered to Eli. “Oh, she’s got a gay tail!” Eli laughed. “A gay tail? What does that mean?” “It curls upward.” Nona let Maisie go. “Still, you never intended her to be a show dog,” she added. brushing off her skirt as she made for the house.

Noun

 * 1)  a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.

Adverbs for Gay
gracefully; boyishly; lightly; cheerfully; inexpressibly; racily; blithely; airily; saucily; proudly; carelessly; joyously; confidently; buoyantly; mystically; fantastically; devilishly; dashingly; artlessly; disarmingly; refreshingly; fashionably; racially; playfully; wantonly; roguishly; bewitchingly; engagingly; radiantly.

Synonyms for Gay

 * (lame, uncool:) ghey
 * blithe, lively, merry, hilarious, sportive, sprightly, frolicsome, showy, jovial, joyous, jolly, cheerful, buoyant, bright, happy, affable, vivacious, blithesome, convivial, festive, jocose, witty, comical, waggish, humorous, colorful, entertaining.

Antonyms for Gay
dull, morose, grouchy, discouraged, listless, solemn, sullen, moody, sulky, melancholy, unhappy, sour, spiritless, languid, splenetic, gloomy, petulant, depressed, angry, cross, grim, crushed, colorless, low-spirited, dejected.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From gai:, probably from a combination of jai: and  gai:,, both from  *undefined: (adv.), *undefined: (adj.) (compare Dutch gauw:), from  (compare German jäh:, Low German (Westphalian) gau:, gai:), from. Compare. The sense of homosexual (first recorded in 1951) was shortened from earlier gay cat ‘homosexual boy’ in underworld and prison slang, itself first attested about 1935, but used earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an older one. The sense of ‘upright’, used in reference to a dog’s tail, probably derives from the ‘happy’ sense of the word.

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: весел,
 * Catalan: gai, gaia
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: glad, livlig
 * Dutch: goedgezind,, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: lustlik
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, εύθυμος, ζωηρός
 * Hebrew: עליז, עליזה
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: gaudiose
 * Italian:, , , , , ,


 * Japanese: 嬉しい (うれしい, ureshii), 楽しい (たのしい, tanoshii)
 * Malay: gembira, suka
 * Maltese: ferħan, ferħana , allegruż , allegruża
 * Norwegian: festlig, glad, livlig,
 * Persian: (khosh-hall)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: neşeli, canlı
 * Welsh: siriol, llawen


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: gai, gaia
 * Chinese:
 * Danish: sjov, farverig
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: εύθυμος, παρδαλός
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: gaudiose


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 派手な (はでな, hade-na)
 * Malay: warna-warni
 * Norwegian: morsom, festlig, fargerik
 * Portuguese: festivo, vívido
 * Russian: (bright, vivid), цветной
 * Spanish: festivo, vívido, alegre, colorido, gayo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: grann
 * Turkish:, canlı, , iç açıcı,
 * Welsh: siriol, llawen


 * Afrikaans: gay, moffie, homoseksueel
 * American Sign Language: G @ chin toward the body
 * Arabic:, مثلية
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: gai
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Min Nan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bøsse, lesbisk , homoseksuel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: gei, homoseksuaalne, homoseksuaal
 * Filipino: bakla, tibo
 * Finnish:, , homo
 * French:, , (esp. in Canada),
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ομοφυλόφιλος (omofilófilos), ομοφυλόφιλη (omofilófili) , λεσβία (lesvía) , slang: πούστης (pústis) , αδερφή (aderfí)
 * Hebrew: הומו, לסבית, גיי
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , オカマ


 * Latvian: gejs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, , педерски
 * Malay: homoseksual
 * Maltese: gay, omosesswali, pufta, linfa, sissi, mxaqleb,
 * Norwegian: homoseksuell, homo, homse, soper,
 * Persian: (hamjens-garâ), گی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: gay
 * Russian:, , , розовая, , пидарас, and its derivatives
 * Scottish Gaelic: co-sheòrsach, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: геј, хомосексуалан , лезбо
 * Roman: gej, homoseksualan , lezbo
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: homosexuell, homo, gay; bög
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Welsh: hoyw


 * Catalan: gai
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek: αδερφίστικος, πούστικος
 * Italian: ,


 * Norwegian: homo, homsete
 * Russian: манерный ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: mariconado,, marimachado,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: женствен
 * Norwegian: femi


 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: жеманный
 * Spanish: amujerado,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: bögig


 * German:
 * Japanese: ださい (dasai), つまらない (tsumaranai)
 * Malay: membosankan
 * Maltese: pufta


 * Portuguese: chato, pouco atraente, ruim, farjuto, fajuto
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * : lefredik (1, 2), otgeniälik (3)

Derived terms

 * gaiety, gayety
 * Gaybraham
 * gaydom
 * gayness

Noun

 * Arabic: لوطي
 * Armenian:, գոմիկ, արվամոլ
 * Belarusian: гей
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: bøsse, homo
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gejo, samseksemulo
 * Finnish: homo, homoseksuaali (gender-neutral), gay, gei, homppeli
 * French: gai, gay, homo , lesbienne
 * Georgian: გეი
 * German: Homosexueller (gender-neutral), Schwuler, Lesbierin , Lesbe  , ,
 * Hebrew: הומו, לסבית
 * Hindi:, समलिंगी
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: gay, lesbica
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 동성애의 사람


 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, хомосексуалец, , лезбејка
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: bicha, veado ; lésbica , sapatão  (female, vulgar, slang)
 * Romanian: homosexual, homo , poponar , lesbiană , lesbi
 * Russian:, , ,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: геј, хомосексуалац , лезбејка , педер
 * Roman: gej, homoseksualac , lezbejka , peder
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Swedish: homosexuell, bög , flata
 * Thai: เกย์
 * Ukrainian: гей
 * Urdu:
 * Urdu:

Related terms

 * gay bar
 * gay bashing, gay-bashing, gaybashing
 * gaydar
 * gay marriage
 * gay pride
 * gay rights

Anagrams

 * YAG

Noun

 * 1)  gay

Noun

 * 1)  homosexual person

Adjective

 * 1) cheerful, happy

Noun

 * 1) jay
 * 2) parrot

Etymology
From gay:

Adjective

 * Homomasculinitatea este un termen care se referă la o subcultură de bărbați gay care se auto-identifică cu rolul de gen și cultura stereotipului masculinității tradiționale.
 * Homomasculinity is a term that refers to a subculture of gay men who self-identify with the gender roles and culture of the stereotype of traditional masculinity.
 * Homomasculinity is a term that refers to a subculture of gay men who self-identify with the gender roles and culture of the stereotype of traditional masculinity.

Adjective

 * 1) gay, homosexual

Noun

 * 1) a homosexual person, gay person