Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gay marry en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from gay marriage.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To marry (a person of the same sex).
    • Heartache schmartache, I don't want to gay-marry you, oh sizzling Sapphite. 2009, anonymous author, Missed Connection with Every Lesbian Girl I've Ever Swooned Over - m4w:
  2. (intransitive) To marry a person of the same sex.
    • First, sex doesn't hover cutely over the ceremony, because everyone assumes gay-marrying types are the least-sexual gay people. 2004, Greg Wharton, Ian Philips, I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage, page 219:
  3. (transitive) To unite in a gay marriage; to unite in marriage to someone of the same sex.
    • Schwarzenegger Basically Admits He's A Democrat Clearly the governor is angling for an administration job, which he'll accept once he's finished gay marrying the entire state of California.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gay marries Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
gay marrying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gay married Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gay married Tense=Past lexicographic
gay-marry alternative lexicographic