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106 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• gay adj. Homosexual…
• gay adj. A pejorative…
• gay adj. (Dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
• gay adj. (Dated) Quick, fast.
• gay adj. (Dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
• gay adj. (Obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
• gay adj. (Of a dog’s tail) Upright or curved over the back.
• gay adj. (Scotland, Northern England, possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree.
• gay n. (Now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
• gay n. (Dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
• gay n. (Obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.
• gay v. (Transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
• gay v. (Transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
• gay adv. (Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.
• gay n. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
• Gay prop.n. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
• Gay prop.n. A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
• Gay prop.n. A male given name from English. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred…

— International convention —

• gay sym. (International standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gayo.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Chinese
  • gay n. Gay; male homosexual (Classifier: 個／个).
• Czech
  • gay n. Male gay.
• Finnish
  • gay n. (Colloquial) gay.
• Gamilaraay
  • gay n. Snake track.
• Indonesian
  • gay n. Gay: homosexual: being between two or more men.
• Interlingua
  • gay adj. (LGBT, sexuality) gay.
  • gay n. Gay.
• Lombard
  • gay adj. Gay, male homosexual.
  • gay n. Gay, male homosexual.
• Maguindanao
  • gay n. Day.
• Manx
  • gay n. Eclipsed form of kay.
• Matal
  • gay n. Mouth.
  • gay n. Language.
  • gay n. Beginning.
• Middle dutch
  • gay adj. Cheerful, happy.
  • gay n. Jay.
  • gay n. Parrot.
• Middle english
  • gay adj. Joyous, merry.
• Middle french
  • gay adj. Cheerful; happy; gay.
• Romanian
  • gay adj. Gay.
• Scots
  • gay adv. Fairly, considerably.
• Sori-harengan
  • gay n. Water.
• Swedish
  • gay adj. (Only used predicatively) gay, homosexual.
• Tagalog
  • Gay prop.n. A female given name from English.
• Vietnamese
  • gay adj. Difficult; hard.
  • gáy n. (Northern Vietnam, anatomy) nape.
  • gáy v. (Of a rooster) to crow; (of a bird) to pipe.
  • gáy v. (Of a cricket) to sing.
  • gáy v. (Slang) to brag, to crow.
  • gây v. To cause; to stir up; to incite; to rouse.
  • gây v. To create; to breed; to cultivate.
  • gây adj. (Of food) fatty-smelling.
  • gãy adj. Broken; fractured.
  • gấy n. North Central Vietnam form of gái (“girls; female”).
  • gấy n. Wife.
  • gầy adj. Thin; skinny.
  • gầy v. (Dialectal) Alternative form of gây (“to cause”).
  • gẫy adj. Alternative form of gãy.
  • gảy v. (Music) to pluck (a musical instrument), to strum.
  • gậy n. Stick, cane, staff.
  • gậy n. (Colloquial, YouTube) a copyright strike.
• Yola
  • gay adj. Alternative form of gaaye.

— English words, defined in German —

• gay Adj. Lustig, fröhlich.
• gay Adj. Homosexuell, schwul.
• Gay S. Englischer weiblicher Vorname.
• Gay S. Gae, Gai, Gaye.
• Gay S. Englischer männlicher Vorname.

— English words, defined in French —

• gay adj. (Vieilli) Gai.
• gay adj. Gay, homo.
• gay n. Gay, homo.
• Gay n.fam. Nom de famille.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• gay adj. Bello.
• gay adj. Gayo, vistoso.
• gay adj. Gozoso, festivo, alegre.
• gay adj. Lascivo, disoluto.
• gay adj. Gay, homosexual.
• gay adj. Patético, penoso, aburrido, flojo.
• gay adv. Gayamente.
• gay s. Dama, ricahembra.
• gay s. Adorno, joya.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• gay adj. Guei.
• gay adj. De bom humor; alegre, gaio; vistoso.
• gay s. Guei.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• gay agg. (Sessualità) gay; di orientamento sessuale omosessuale; relativo all’omosessualità, trattante tematiche…
• gay agg. (Offensivo) (obsoleto) effeminato.
• gay agg. (Offensivo) (obsoleto) sessualmente promiscuo, dissoluto.
• gay agg. (Raro) gaio, allegro, pieno di vita, vivace.
• gay agg. (Gergale) (spregiativo) brutto, incapace, sgradevole, senza scrupoli.
• gay s. (Sessualità) persona omosessuale (al singolare utilizzato solitamente, ma non esclusivamente, per riferirsi…

— In German —

• gay Adj. Jargon, LBTQ, umgangssprachlich: sexuelle Neigungen zum…

— In Dutch —

• gay n. (Lhbt) homoseksueel.
• gay bijv. (Lhbt) homoseksueel.

— In French —

• gay adj.m. (Anglicisme) Homosexuel, en particulier masculin.
• gay n.m. (Anglicisme) Homosexuel, en particulier masculin mais pas exclusivement.
• Gay n.fam. Nom de famille.

— In Spanish —

• gay adj. LGBT. Que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo…
• gay adj. LGBT. Propio o prototípico de una persona gay.
• gay adj. De actitud alegre y despreocupada.
• gay adj. De colorido vistoso y festivo.

— In Portuguese —

• gay adj. (Estrangeirismo) vide guei.
• gay s. (Estrangeirismo) vide guei.

— In Italian —

• gay agg. (Forestierismo), (sessualità) (sociologia) (psicologia)…
• gay agg. (Arte) che tratta tematiche a sfondo omosessuale.
• gay agg. Che riguarda l’omosessualità, ovvero l’amore fra persone…
• gay agg. (Per estensione) di maschio omosessuale.
• gay s. (Forestierismo), (sessualità) (sociologia) (psicologia) detto…
• gay s. (Per estensione) maschio omosessuale.

174 English words from 61 English definitions

AIDS Also Alternative amp anatomy and any associated back Beginning being between bird brag breed bright Broken cane cause Central cheerful chiefly Classifier code Colloquial colorful colourful Considerable considerably copyright create cricket crow cultivate curved dated Day degree Dialectal Difficult dog Eclipsed engaged England English especially Fairly fast fatty female Festive flower food for form fractured from Gabriel gay Gaylord Gayo gender girls given given␣name great happy hard homosexual incite instrument International ISO Jay joyful Joyous kay knack knick knick-knack language language␣code large letter LGBT lively make male men merry more Mouth Music musical musical␣instrument name names nape nickname North North␣Central Northern Now number obsolete of␣a Only originally ornament over Parrot particularly pejorative people person picture pipe Pitman pluck plural possibly predicatively promiscuous prostitution Quick rare rooster rouse Scotland sexuality Sexually shortened shorthand similar sing size skinny Slang smelling Snake something sometimes sound staff standards stands stands␣for Stick stir stir␣up strike strum such such␣as surname tail the Thin today track transferred Transitive two uncommon Upright used very Vietnam Water which Wife with word YouTube

28 English words from 45 foreign definitions

all allegro Bello che Dama fra gay Gaye Gayo homo homosexual humor Jargon LGBT Lustig masculin Nom non pas per persona personas Que Raro sexual vide vita vivace

87 foreign words from 45 foreign definitions

aburrido actitud Adorno alegre amore Anglicisme Arte atracción bom brutto colorido despreocupada detto disoluto dissoluto effeminato Englischer en␣particulier esclusivamente estensione Estrangeirismo exclusivement famille festivo flojo Forestierismo fröhlich Gai gaio Gergale Gozoso guei homoseksueel Homosexuel Homosexuell incapace joya Lascivo Lhbt mais männlicher maschio mismo Neigungen Nom␣de␣famille obsoleto Offensivo omosessuale omosessualità orientamento ovvero particulier Patético penoso Per␣estensione persone pieno por promiscuo Propio psicologia relativo riguarda schwul senza sessuale sessualità sessualmente sexuelle sfondo sgradevole siente singolare sociologia solitamente spregiativo tematiche tratta trattante umgangssprachlich una utilizzato Vieilli vistoso Vorname weiblicher zum

235 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Gaya Gaye gayo Gayo gays Gays gayal Gayan gaybo gayby gayed gayer gay-in Gayla gayle Gayle gayly gaymo gayne gay␣up gayals gay-ass gaybar gay␣bar gay␣bob gaybos gayboy gay␣boy gaycel gaydar gay-dar Gayden gay␣dog gaydom Gaydos gayers gayest gayety gayfag gayful gayify gaying gay-ins gayish gayism Gayler Gaylor gayman Gayman gay␣man +185 words

86 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

agayn A-gays begays Bugays de-gays ex-gays re-gays ungays Wagaya zagaye agaynst begayed Cagayan de-gayed margays morgays nongays outgays re-gayed Tingays ungayed zagayes Abigayle agaynest assagays assegays begaying de-gaying gigayear holigays homogays Kimigayo Kumagaya Lingayat Lingayen megayear nosegays outgayed papagays re-gaying Setagaya Tagaytay ungaying assagayed balangays barangays calangays gigayacht gigayears hassagays +36 words

50 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

A-gay begay Bugay de-gay ex-gay I'm␣gay re-gay ungay Ardgay Bungay cisgay Hilgay margay Mazgay morgay nongay Norgay outgay progay pro-gay Tingay wongay antigay anti-gay assagay assegay holigay homogay nosegay papagay postgay balangay barangay calangay Djabugay hassagay Kornegay lancegay lesbigay stage␣gay transgay Wormegay Gamlingay Harringay malunggay prison␣gay yestergay don't␣say␣gay gold␣star␣gay pray␣away␣the␣gay

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

YAG

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

YAG

50 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

A-gay aggy Aggy agly Algy -algy cagy gaby Gaby Gacy gamy -gamy gapy Gary Gaya Gaye gayo Gayo gays Gays gazy g'day glyA goya Goya gray Gray Guay gyal gyan gyra Hagy Lyga Nagy NYAG PAYG ragy sagy yage yagi Yagi YAGs yang Yang yarg Yarg yoga Yoga yuga zyga

19 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ag Ag AG Ag. A-G A/G A.G. A.␣G. ay AY -ay ay^ Ga GA Ga. G&A ya Ya YA

95 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

AAY bay Bay cay day Day fay Fay GAA gab Gab GAB gab- -gab- gac gad Gad GAD GAE gaf gag GAG gah GAH gaj gak gal Gal GAL gal. Gal. gam GAM Gam. gan Gan GaN GAN Gao GAO gap Gap GAP gar GAR gas Gas GAs gat gau Gau Gav gaw Gaw Gaz gey GFY Gly gly- goy Goy gry guy Guy Guy. hay Hay jay Jay kay Kay 'kay lay Lay may May nay Nay NAY pay Pay ray Ray ra'y say tay Tay way Way 'way -way yay Yay zay Zay

8 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ay AY -ay ay^ Ga GA Ga. G&A

12 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

gaby Gaby Gacy gamy -gamy gapy Gary gazy g'day gray Gray Guay

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