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Definition: Gaily |
GailyAdverb1. In a gay manner; "the scandals were gaily diverting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gaily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Gaily \Gai"ly\, adverb. [From Gay.]. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed to think they could doubt my love ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; performing artist: The Platters) The birds in the branches they did gaily sing (Factory Girl; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gaily Gaily (1969) Marching Gaily (2001) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Wagon full of gaily dressed characters] / Welter. Chez Aubert, gal: vero-dodat. Imp: d'Aubert. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The girl chatted incessantly and gaily. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | As he stood silent in the middle of the room she came over to him and embraced him gaily and gravely |
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| "Gaily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 72.96% of the time. "Gaily" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 72.96% | 197 | 21,803 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.04% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gaily": gaily colored ♦ gaily coloured. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gaily": gaily-coloured, gaily-decorated, gaily-dressed, gaily-painted, gaily-striped. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gaily | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gaily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gëzueshëm (cheerfully, cheerly), gëzuar (cheers, prosit, to your health), dëfrenjës. (various references) | |
Arabic | خفيفا, بمرح (airily, facetiously, jauntily, merrily), بسرور (readily), بابتهاج, بإبتهاج (airily, enthusiastically), ببهجة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радостно (gladly, rejoicingly), весело (merrily, rosily). (various references) | |
Czech | vesele (happily, jauntily, merrily). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرزرق وبرق (Gaudy, Splendid), پرجلوه (Loud, Pretentious, Resplendent, Showy), شوخ وشنگ (Waggish), باروح (Airy, Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Lively, Peppery, Racy, Snappy, Spunky). (various references) | |
French | gaiement, de façon gaie, avec bonne humeur. (various references) | |
German | unbekümmert (carefree, carelessly, easygoing, insouciant, lighthearted, lightheartedly, mindless, reckless, recklessly, unconcerned, unconcernedly, unheeding, unworried). (various references) | |
Greek | επιδεικτικώσ (showily), ευθυμώσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בעליצות, בח"ו" (gladly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vidáman (blithely, chirpily, gayly, gleefully, jauntily, jocosely, jocularly, jovially, joyfully, joyously, playfully, rejoicingly), boldogan (fain, gayly, gladly, happily, joyously). (various references) | |
Italian | gaiamente (airily), allegramente (cheerfully, merrily). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 千代紙 (gaily colored paper). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちよがみ (gaily colored paper). (various references) | |
Manx | dy reagh (blithely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alegremente (airily, gladly, happily, jauntily, joyfully, lightly, merrily, rejoicingly). (various references) | |
Romanian | vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), cu strãlucire (luminously). (various references) | |
Russian | весело (gayly, happily, jauntily, merrily, pleasantly, rejoicingly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veselo (exhilarated, facetiously, happily, jokingly, lightly, merrily, rejoicingly). (various references) | |
Spanish | alegremente (airily, brightly, cheerfully, cheerily, gladly, happily, joyfully, lightly, lively, luckily, merrily, pertly, playfully). (various references) | |
Swedish | muntert (merrily), glatt (cheerfully, glossy, joyfully, merrily, slippery, smooth). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างร่าเริง (lightly, mirthfully). (various references) | |
Turkish | gamsız (carefree, happy go lucky, harum scarum, light hearted, lymphatic), neşeyle (cheerfully, cheery, cock-a-hoop, genially, in high spirits, jauntily, merrily, sprightly), neşe ile, kaygısız (buoyant, carefree, careless, freewheeling, insouciant, jaunty, light hearted, unconcerned), canlı bir şekilde, şen şakrak (jovial, sprightly), aldırışsız (careless, devil may care, heedless, indifferent, insensate, reckless, regardless, unconcerned, unmindful, unobliging). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | яскраво (aglow, bright, brightly), радісно (joyfully, jubilantly), весело (airily, jovially, merrily). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ; hoan hỉ xán lạn, tươi vui (rose-coloured). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gaily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agcaoli, agily, aily, gadly, gafly, gaill, gainy, Gaiole, gaitly, gaity, Galby, galey, Gali, galia, galib, galik, galixy, galiz, galky, Ganley, gasly, Gazil, Geally, Geely, geil, gely, gial, gialli, giallo, gili, Graily, grayly, grily, Guilio, taily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gaily" (pronounced gā"lē) |
| 3 | -ā" l ē | Bailey, Bailie, daily, ukulele. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-y" | |
-1 letter: agly, glia, yagi. | |
-2 letters: ail, gal, gay, lag, lay. | |
-3 letters: ag, ai, al, ay, la, li, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-y" | |
+1 letter: cagily, gainly, gamily, glairy, laying. | |
+2 letters: agilely, agility, allying, angrily, baggily, claying, flaying, gassily, gaudily, gauzily, gawkily, lazying, mangily, myalgia, myalgic, nylghai, playing, slaying, stagily, yawling, yealing. | |
+3 letters: achingly, aguishly, algidity, allaying, alloying, almighty, antilogy, apiology, applying, axiology, belaying, craggily, dallying, daringly, daylight, delaying, galabiya, gallying, gapingly, garishly, garlicky, genially, glassily, glaziery, grassily, gravidly, grayling, graymail, greasily, gyroidal, idealogy, inlaying, japingly, layering, legality, malignly, myalgias, nylghais, palsying, plagiary, plaguily, playgirl, pygidial, ragingly, rallying, ravingly, regality, relaying, sallying, savingly, shaggily, signally, slangily, slayings, splaying, syzygial, takingly, tallying, tangibly, taxingly, ungainly, unlaying, vagility, yealings, yeanling, yearling. | |
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