gey

Fairly good; considerable.

Adjective

  1. Fairly good; considerable.
    • 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. - 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page...

Origin

Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.

Forms

geyer geyest

Adverb

  1. Very.
    • 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. - 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary,...
    • But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be. - 2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, page 213: