Meanings
adjectivegayish (not comparable)
- datednot comparableSomewhat cheerful.
Her attire was gayish. There was about her a great deal of mauve and black and white […]
1914, Baroness Von Hutten, Helping Hersey, page 231 - informalnot comparableSomewhat homosexual.
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.
1994, Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders, Judd Marmor, Growing up before Stonewall: life stories of some gay men, page 26
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Translations
Russian ге́йский
- ге́йский (géjskij)Translations
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