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Gei vs Gey - What's the difference?

gei | gey |

As a noun gei

is a martial arts uniform.

As an adverb gey is

very.

As an adjective gey is

fairly good; considerable.

gei

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A martial arts uniform.
  • * James Henry Littlefield, Sweet Deal: A Trucker Deal Mystery (2003) p. 165:
  • I peeled off the sweatshirt and Smith got out of the gei , so we sat there, me in my colorful board shorts, Clarke in a white martial-arts uniform and black belt, Smith in a black Speedo, and Jason in his black muscle-T.
  • * Jackie Grant Miller, Keeper of the Arts: The Story Begins... (2006) p.17:
  • The uniform you see me wearing is called a Gei which all students are required to practice in.

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    gey

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (Scotland, Ireland, northern England) Very.
  • * 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:
  • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland, Ireland, northern England) Fairly good; considerable.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
  • *: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.
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