different between gery vs gey

Middle English

Alternative forms

• geri, geery, gere, guery, guerry, gire, guyry

Etymology

See gere (“childish behaviour”) +? -y.

Adjective

gery

1. Subject to frequent and sudden changes; variable, unpredictable.
2. (of a person) Changeable; fickle.
   • 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Knight's Tale"

     Right so kan gery Venus ouercaste The hertes of hir folk.

3. (of clothing) Faddish
   • 1399, Mum and the Sothsegger

     How þe while turneth With gyuleris, joyffull for here gery jaces.

Synonyms

• gerful

References

• “geri, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.

English

Etymology

Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.

Adverb

gey (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Very. [from 17th c.]
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:

     I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.

   • 2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, p.213:

     But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.

Adjective

gey (comparative geyer, superlative geyest)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Fairly good; considerable. [from 18th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:

     They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.

Anagrams

• Egy., yeg

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From English gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ej/

Noun

gey (definite accusative geyi, plural geyl?r)

1. A gay, a homosexual male.

   Synonym: homoseksual

Declension

Related terms

• götv?r?n (offensive). See more related terms there.

Manx

Noun

gey m

1. Eclipsed form of key.

Mutation

Scots

Alternative forms

• gye

Etymology

Alteration of English gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?/, /??i/

Adverb

gey (not comparable)

1. very
2. quite

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?/

Noun

gey (definite accusative geyi, plural geyler)

1. A gay, a homosexual male.

Declension

Synonyms

• e?cinsel
• homoseksüel