Noun: jay
Sample Sentences
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They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […] [1878, Philip Stewart Robinson, In My Indian Garden:]
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Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
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He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way
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He spends the good oof that his pater has made
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Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade. [1900, Harry B. Norris, “Burlington Bertie”:]
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Some jay of Italy, / Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him: [a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 3, scene 4, lines 50–51:]
Nouns inflected like jay
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English jay, from Old French jai ("jay"; Modern French geai), either from Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or from Old French gai (“gay, merry”), so named due to its plumage, from Old Frankish *gāhi (“quick, impetuous”), from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”), cognate with Dutch gaai (“jay”). More at gay. See: Middle English Nouns '
jay', Dutch Nouns '
gaai'.
Verbs referencing "jay"
Italian Nouns
gei, Galician Nouns
gaio, Bulgarian Nouns
гаяче.