Gay
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪ
Proper noun
[edit]Gay (plural Gays)
- An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
- A unisex given name from English
- A female given name from English, from the word gay (“joyful”); rare today.
- A male given name from English
- 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.
- A male given name transferred from the surname
- A diminutive of the male given names Gaylord or Gabriel, and similar names
- 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,
Derived terms
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[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɡej/ [ˈɡeɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -ej
Proper noun
[edit]Gay (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜌ᜔)
- a female given name from English
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- Rhymes:English/eɪ
- Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable
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- English male given names from English
- English female given names
- English female given names from English
- English unisex given names
- English unisex given names from English
- English terms with quotations
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- English diminutives of male given names
- Tagalog terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/ej
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ej/1 syllable
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
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- Tagalog proper nouns
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- Tagalog female given names from English