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.

Origin of kye

1
Borrowed into English from Korean around 1985–90

Words Nearby kye

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How to use kye in a sentence

  • 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.

    Lochinvar | S. R. Crockett
  • "This is worth a' the kye frae Achnasheen to Glen Urquhart," he cried.

    Lochinvar | S. R. Crockett
  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for kye

kye

/ (kaɪ) /


noun
  1. (functioning as plural) a Scottish and Northern English variant of kine

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