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Etymology edit

gay +‎ -ish

Adjective edit

gayish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat cheerful.
    • 1914, Baroness Von Hutten, Helping Hersey, page 231:
      Her attire was gayish. There was about her a great deal of mauve and black and white []
  2. (informal) Somewhat homosexual.
    • 1994, Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders, Judd Marmor, Growing up before Stonewall: life stories of some gay men, page 26:
      So, the police conducted a New Year's Eve raid in 1967 on a gayish bar over on Sunset and Sanborn in Silver Lake called the Black Cat.

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