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How to pronounce “gay”
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Pronunciation guide for gay
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of gay with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Making Gay History
ERIC MARCUS: I'm Eric Marcus, I make "Making Gay History."
- Definition summary
- Homosexual:
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce gay
Making Gay History
ERIC MARCUS: I'm Eric Marcus, I make "Making Gay History."
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “gay”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Homosexual:
- A pejorative:
- (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
- (dated) Quick, fast.
- (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
- (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
- (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
- (Scotland, Northern England, possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
- [Noun]
- (now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- (informal, often derogatory or ironic) Gayness: the quality of being gay.
- (dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
- (obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful. [since at least the 1920s]
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people. [popularized in the 1990s]
- [Adverb]
- (Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.
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