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Brisk vs Gay - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between brisk and gay

is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while gay is happy, joyful, and lively.

As verbs the difference between brisk and gay

is that brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate while gay is to make happy or cheerful.

As a proper noun Gay is

{{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.

As a noun gay is

a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.

brisk

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Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
    • We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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  • Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
  • Stimulating or invigorating.
    • This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
  • Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

    See also

    * brusque

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

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    gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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