kye

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Scrabble points: 10
Words With Friends: 9
Letters: 3

Pronunciation

/kaɪ/

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/kaɪ/ · /kjeɪ/

Definition of kye

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural)plural of cow

“Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to.”
“devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.”

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noun

(archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural)plural of cow

“Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to.”
“devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.”
(UK, slang, uncountable)Cocoa (the drink).

“[…] wrapped in layers of warm clothing against rushing icy air, and all longing for bubbling hot kye (Navy cocoa) at midnight.”
“Then he walked back to the wheelhouse. Guido arrived with three cups of kye and a plate of hot buttered toast.”
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name

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English ky, kye, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow and compare kine (“cows”).