Uey vs Gey - What's the difference?
uey | gey |
(Australia, Canada, UK, US, colloquial, informal) A U-turn.
* 1987 , Kelly Lawrence, The Gone Shots , Franklin Watts, US,
* 2000 , Louis J. Fagan, Angelo , Independent Publishers Group, US,
* 2006 , Richard Crick, My Word Is My Bonus , AuthorHouse,
* 2007 , Richard Marinick, In For a Pound , Justin, Charles & Co., US,
(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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As a noun uey
is (australia|canada|uk|us|colloquial|informal) a u-turn.As an adverb gey is
(scotland|ireland|northern england) very.As an adjective gey is
(scotland|ireland|northern england) fairly good; considerable.uey
English
Alternative forms
* Uey * U-ey * youeeNoun
(en noun)page 280,
- “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey .
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- Barry musta figured Jamie?s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.
page 255,
- “Sid, could you please just go up Holborn a little way, do a uey and pull in over there, where we can see the entrance over on this side.”
page 59,
- Climbing into the Mustang, McCauley banged a Uey in front of the post office and stopped for the red light half a block up at the corner of Sea Street.
See also
* flip a bitch (US)Anagrams
* ----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.