GAY

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gay adjectiv

1. vesel, voios, bine dispus; nepăsător;

as gay as a lark foarte vesel; vesel ca un juncan;

(pop.) all so gay! în regulă.

2. pitoresc; (despre culori) viu, strălucitor; ţipător; (despre haine) viu colorat, pestriţ.

3. împestriţat, înzorzonat, gătit.

4. dornic de viaţă; imoral, dezmăţat, desfrânat, stricat;

to lead a gay life a duce o viaţă de plăceri, de dezmăt;

(fam.) gay girl / woman / bit femeie stricată, prostituată.

5. (amer. fam.) cu chef, afumat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Mr. Rivers, I have been so gay during my stay at S-.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I found Miss Westenra in seemingly gay spirits.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Give us something gayer, lad, said Mr. Laurence, whose kind old heart was full of sympathy, which he longed to show but knew not how.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

They were very gay and careless.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Well, married we were, and came down to Combe Magna to be happy, and afterwards returned to town to be gay.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Never, I am sure, were people gayer or happier.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The cup of life was poisoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mr. Crawford and Miss Bertram were much more gay, and she thought that he was taking particular pains, during dinner, to do away any little resentment of the other two, and restore general good-humour.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She was in gay spirits, and would have prolonged the conversation, wanting to hear the particulars of his suspicions, every look described, and all the wheres and hows of a circumstance which highly entertained her: but his gaiety did not meet hers.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

In that interval the plan was completed, and as soon as she came again, her agreement was demanded; but instead of the gay acquiescence expected by Isabella, Catherine looked grave, was very sorry, but could not go.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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