Gey vs Dey - What's the difference?
gey | dey |
(Scotland, Ireland, northern England) Very.
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:
(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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The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
As an adverb gey
is (scotland|ireland|northern england) very.As an adjective gey
is (scotland|ireland|northern england) fairly good; considerable.As a proper noun dey is
the tenth solar month of the persian calendar.gey
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- 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.