Gar vs Gay - What's the difference?
gar | gay |
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
, 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
* 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
As nouns the difference between gar and gay
is that gar is gaur (species of wild cattle) while gay is nape.As a verb gay is
to crow.gar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
Etymology 3
From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .Verb
- I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
- Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].
Anagrams
* ----gay
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - 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,
- "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.- - -
