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
"The nut-browne bride has oxen, brother,25 The nut-browne bride has kye: I wad hae ye marrie the nut-browne bride, And cast fair Annet bye."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
For instead of his ain ten milk kye, Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
After a long time I awoke, dreaming that Maisie Lennox stood by my bedside and took my hand, saying, "The kye are in the corn!"
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)
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