gey

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandnot comparableVery.First known use 17th c.

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

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

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   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.

   1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 207

comparative geyer · superlative geyest

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandFairly good; considerable.First known use 18th c.

   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.

   1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16