gay
/ɡeɪ/ verb C2- To make happy or cheerful.
- To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
He/she/it gays · Past gayed · Past participle gayed · -ing form gaying
Verb forms
- Base form
- gay
- He/she/it
- gays
- Past
- gayed
- Past participle
- gayed
- -ing form
- gaying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?”
When the Scarecrow found himself among his friends again, he was so happy that he hugged them all, even the Lion and Toto; and as they walked along he sang “Tol-de-ri-de-oh!” at every step, he felt so gay.
He recalled the cluster of little girls he had seen around her that evening--all gay in waists of red and blue and pink and white--and he wondered why Marilla always kept her so plainly and soberly gowned.
When the commonplace breakfast was over Diana appeared, crossing the white log bridge in the hollow, a gay little figure in her crimson ulster.
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