ungay

comparative more ungay · superlative most ungay

1. datedNot gay; not cheerful or merry.

   With specious baits they dangle the lure of cheapness as the sole attraction. Cheap clothes represent the falsest of all economies. Their life is not only short, it is exceedingly unpleasant and obviously ungay.

   1922, The Nation and Athenæum, volume 32, page 359

2. Not homosexual.

   I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.

   2011, Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History

3. Not gay (all senses)

   That movie was gay. Are you kidding me? That was the most ungay movie ever made!

present singular third person ungays · participle present ungaying · participle past ungayed · past ungayed · alternative un-gay

1. transitiveTo make not gay or less gay.

   “[...] At first I thought he was trying to ungay me or something.” Monty laughed.

   2013, EM Linley, Snow Job

   3 more examples

   He was too preoccupied by too many different feelings to think rationally and realize that he was doing it again, trying to “ungay” himself.

   2009, J. R. Dewesse, To Be Loved: Because It Was Forbidden

   “That is what I believed until Sukuma ungayed me.” “I think you need to be resting at this time instead of trying to get ungayed!”

   2011, Nsedu B. Onyile, Ten Days With Minor

   “[...] You know there are still programs out there to un-gay the gays!” Julian exploded.

   2016, Cris Gutierrez, Through the Fire