scye
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
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/saɪ/
Definition of scye
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
“on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Scots sey (“armhole, cut of beef”), from Middle Scots say, possibly from Old Norse segi, sigi (“chunk, bite”), from Proto-Germanic *segô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
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