kye
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kye
Borrowed into English from Korean around 1985–90
Example Sentences
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Loan pools like the Chinese hui, the Japanese tanomoshi and the Korean kye involve groups of investors who pay into a kitty that is then doled out on a rotating basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
What Koreans call kye is a hui for the Chinese, ekub for Ethiopians, san for Dominicans.
From Time Magazine Archive
We lie not here for owsen, father; Nor yet do we for kye; But it's for a little o' dear-boucht love,45 Sae sair bound as we lie.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Good morrow, young sir," he said at last; "so you and your friends thought that ye would like a score or two o' the Elibank kye.
From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Allan Stewart
So what did I do but started ower in the afternoon, an' gat there juist aboot the time when the kye are milkit, an' a' the folk eyther at the byre or in the stable.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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