gay blade

noun

A dashing swordsman.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noungay blade (plural gay blades)

plural gay blades

  1. obsoleteA dashing swordsman.
  2. datedA dashing youth.

    At college he was a gay blade who played the guitar or one of the instruments for the accompaniment of song.

    1941, Jonathan Daniels, Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina
    1 more example

    He's feeling very low now because he was sixty years old the other day. And you know- you know how Bebe [is]- I said Bebe, you can't talk about being a young gay blade anymore.

    1973, Richard Nixon, “WHT 035-067”, in Nixon White House tapes
Cite this entry
APA

gay blade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gay%20blade

MLA

“gay blade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gay%20blade. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gay blade,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gay%20blade.

Source: gay blade on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.