Kyloe
noun
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Kyloe
American
[kahy-loh]
/ ˈkaɪ loʊ /
noun
kyloe
British
/ ˈkaɪləʊ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Kyloe
1745–55; earlier Kiley, Kylie < Scots Gaelic gaidhealach Gaelic, Highland, equivalent to Gaidheal Highlander, Gael + -ach adj. suffix
Example Sentences
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She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow.
From The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations by Unknown
At Kyloe, in Northumberland, the intellectual defects of Henry Watson have, like the naughtiness of Manne, secured him a measure of fame.
From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew
I tend my hunderd yakker farm, ��� An' milk my Kyloe kye.
From Songs of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William
She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow; Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all e'en now.
From The Nursery Rhyme Book by Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie)
Kyloe, kī′lō, n. one of the cattle of the Hebrides.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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