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Gay

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See also:gay,gáy,gấy,gảy,andgậy

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Gay (pluralGays)

  1. An Englishsurname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  2. A unisexgiven name from English.
    1. A femalegiven name from English, from the wordgay(“joyful”); rare today.
    2. A malegiven name from English.
      • 2004,Annie Proulx,Bad Dirt, Fourth Estate,→ISBN, page32:
        "MrGay Brawls. What a name."
        "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were namedGay. Even in Nevada. Was oldGay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.
      1. A malegiven name transferred from the surname.
      2. Adiminutive of the malegiven namesGaylord orGabriel, and similar names
        • 1992,Gay Talese,Unto the Sons, Ballantine Books, published1993,→ISBN, page15:
          - - - 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,

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Borrowed fromEnglishGay.

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Gay (Baybayin spellingᜄᜒᜌ᜔)

  1. a femalegiven name from English
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