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gayish en · ADJ

Etymology

From gay + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (dated, not-comparable) Somewhat cheerful.
    • Her attire was gayish. There was about her a great deal of mauve and black and white […] 1914, Baroness Von Hutten, Helping Hersey, page 231:
  2. (informal, not-comparable) Somewhat homosexual.
    • 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. 1994, Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders, Judd Marmor, Growing up before Stonewall: life stories of some gay men, page 26:

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