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kye

[ key ]

noun

  1. a private Korean-American banking club to which members pay contributions and from which they may take out loans, usually to start small businesses.


kye

/ kaɪ /

noun

  1. functioning as plural a Scottish and Northern English variant of kine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kye1

Borrowed into English from Korean around 1985–90
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Example Sentences

But if she's gaun to look after the kye at St. Leonard's, that's another story; to be sure they maun be sorted.

The kye were milked on the edge of the wood to give the horses stalling-room in their places.

"This is worth a' the kye frae Achnasheen to Glen Urquhart," he cried.

The kye crouched, with misty nostrils laid low to the damp grass, rough with tangled gale.

Instinct led the kye to the sunlight, for all living things have their joy through the eyes.

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