gayish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gayish (not comparable)
- Somewhat cheerful.
- 1914, Baroness Von Hutten, Helping Hersey, page 231:
- Her attire was gayish. There was about her a great deal of mauve and black and white […]
- (informal) Somewhat homosexual.
- 1994, Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders, Judd Marmor, Growing up before Stonewall: life stories of some gay men, page 26:
- So, the police conducted a New Year's Eve raid in 1967 on a gayish bar over on Sunset and Sanborn in Silver Lake called the Black Cat.