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Gayed vs Payed - What's the difference?

gayed | payed |

As verbs the difference between gayed and payed

is that gayed is (gay) while payed is (archaic) (from old french paier) (pay).

gayed

English

Verb

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  • (gay)

    • 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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    payed

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    Alternative forms

    * paid

    Verb

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  • (archaic) (from Old French paier) (pay)
  • * 1616 —
  • *:...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...
  • * 1836 — , ch 25
    • It was but just in time, for, as the frigate flew round, describing a circle, as she payed off before the wind, they could perceive the breakers lashing the precipitous coast, not two cables' length from them.
  • (from Old French peier) (pay)