Gey vs Ger - What's the difference?
gey | ger |
(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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A yurt.
* 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 133:
A male convert to Judaism.
As an adverb gey
is (scotland|ireland|northern england) very.As an adjective gey
is (scotland|ireland|northern england) fairly good; considerable.As a noun ger is
january (month).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.
Adjective
(en adjective)ger
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger , and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.