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Margo vs Gay - What's the difference?

margo | gay |

As nouns the difference between margo and gay

is that margo is (anatomy) border, margin while gay is nape.

As a verb gay is

to crow.

margo

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Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a phonetic rendering of (etyl) Margot.
  • * 1998 , A Patchwork Planet , A.A.Knopf Inc., page 3:
  • *:"I like names that end with an a, don't you? Or other vowels? Most often it seems to be an a. But wait: Margo' s name ends with an o, for mercy's sake! Barnaby's mother. Or it used to be o. Then she met Barnaby's father and added a t."
    • Sophia looked at me. I told her, "Mom thought Margot with a t was higher class."

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    gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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