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
"I don't see nuffin to kye for," said Toady Lion unsympathetically, trying to find pockets in Prissy's night-gown; "it was a nice sing-song!"
From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
But the kye “were rowting on the loan and the lea,” and something had to be done to augment the quickly vanishing herd.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
Thus died, not unworthily, even while I was bringing in the kye in the evening at Earlstoun, William Gordon, a father of whom, in life and death, no son need be ashamed.
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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