Gay
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- Rhymes: -eɪ
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Gay
- An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
- A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
- A male given name from English. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
- 1992, Gay Talese, Unto the Sons, Ballantine Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 15:
- - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese (whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized form "Gay"), was an atypically fearless traveler,
- 2004, Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 32:
- "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
"It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay. Even in Nevada. Was old Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.
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Gay (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜌ᜔)
- a female given name from English