"gey" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 207:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, page 213:",
          "text": "But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very."
      ],
      "id": "en-gey-en-adv-jCQlllvP",
      "links": [
        [
          "Very",
          "very"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Very."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "Northern-England",
        "Scotland",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gey"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geyer",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "geyest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Northern England English",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fairly good; considerable."
      ],
      "id": "en-gey-en-adj-sYrSh28a",
      "links": [
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "considerable",
          "considerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Fairly good; considerable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "Northern-England",
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gey"
}

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    "Pages with 5 entries",
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  "etymology_text": "Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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        "Scottish English"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 207:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, page 213:",
          "text": "But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Very",
          "very"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Very."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "Northern-England",
        "Scotland",
        "not-comparable"
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    }
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  "word": "gey"
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    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geyer",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "geyest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Northern England English",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fairly good; considerable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "considerable",
          "considerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Fairly good; considerable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "Northern-England",
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gey"
}