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Gery vs Gey - What's the difference?

gery | gey |

As adjectives the difference between gery and gey

is that gery is (obsolete) changeable; fickle while gey is (scotland|ireland|northern england) fairly good; considerable.

As an adverb gey is

(scotland|ireland|northern england) very.

gery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) changeable; fickle
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)

    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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