kye

[ key ]

/ keɪ /

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noun

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

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Origin of kye

Borrowed into English from Korean around 1985–90

Words nearby kye

kyat, kyathos, kybo, kybosh, Kyd, kye, Kyiv, kyle, kylie, kylin, kylix

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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 Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, Illustrated|Sir Walter Scott
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.
Pharais and The Mountain Lovers|Fiona Macleod

Instinct led the kye to the sunlight, for all living things have their joy through the eyes.
Pharais and The Mountain Lovers|Fiona Macleod

British Dictionary definitions for kye

kye

/ (kaɪ) /

noun

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

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