kye
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kye
Borrowed into English from Korean around 1985–90
Example Sentences
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What Koreans call kye is a hui for the Chinese, ekub for Ethiopians, san for Dominicans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
When the Captain of Bewcastle came over to Ettrick “to drive a prey,” and carried off Jamie Telfer’s kye, he rendered splendid service in rescuing the herd from the hand of the spoiler.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
For example, we find that in 1596 he ran a day foray into Gilsland, and carried off “300 oxen and kye, a horse and a nag.”
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
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
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