All Gay (or All so Gay). adv. phr. (common).—All right; first-rate; all
serene (q.v.).
To feel gay. verb. phr. (colloquial).—Inclined for sport, venereal or
other; To feel naughty (q.v.).
Gay Tyke Boy, subs. phr. (old).—A dog fancier.
1848. Duncombe, Sinks of London, s.v.
Gazebo, subs. (old).—A summer-house commanding an extensive view.
[Dog-Latin, gazebo = I will gaze.]
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Geach, subs. (thieves’).—A thief. For synonyms, see Thieves.
1821. Haggart, Life, p. 56. He was a tolerable geach.
Verb. (thieves’).—To steal. For synonyms, see Prig.
1821. Haggart, Life, p. 73. A small dross scout ... which I knew
had been geached.
Gear, subs. (venery).—1. The private parts, both male and female.
[‘Geere, besognes; aussi les parties honteuses’ (Robert Sherwood’s
Dictionarie, English and French, appended to Cotgrave, 1660).
‘Besongner ... also to do or leacher with’ (Cotgrave). Anglo-Saxon:
gearwe (strong feminine plural) ornaments. Skeat says original sense of
gear was ‘preparation.’]
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, Mozza, a wench, a lasse, a girle.
Also a woman’s geare or cunnie.
1620. Percy, Folio MSS. ‘Ffryar and Boye.’ I sweare, by night nor
day thy geare is not to borrow.
1659. Torriano, Vocabulario, s.v.
2. (obsolete).—Work, business (q.v.). Thus: Here’s goodly gear = Here’s
fine doings; Here’s a pretty kettle of fish. As in Romeo and Juliet
(ii., 2, 106).
Gee, subs. (colloquial).—See Gee-gee.
Verb. (colloquial).—1. To go or turn to the off-side; used as a
direction to horses. Cf.: It.: gio = Get on!
1480. Dialogus Creaturum. Et cum sic gloriaretur, et cogitaret cum
quanta gloria duceretur ad illum virum super equum, dicendo, ‘Gio!
Gio!’ cepit pede percutere terram quasi pungeret equum calcaribus.