gayish

English

Etymology

gay +‎ -ish

Adjective

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.

Translations

Translations

• Russian: гейский (ru) (gejskij)
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