See also: gay, gáy, gấy, gảy, and gậy

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Gay (plural Gays)

  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  2. A unisex given name from English.
    1. A female given name from English, from the word gay (joyful); rare today.
    2. 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.
      1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
      2. 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,

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Borrowed from English Gay.

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Gay (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜌ᜔)

  1. a female given name from English