shay

[ shey ]

/ ʃeɪ /

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noun Chiefly Dialect.

a chaise.

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Origin of shay

1710–20; respelling and back formation from chaise (taken as plural)

Words nearby shay

shawm, Shawn, Shawnee, Shawnees, Shawwal, shay, shaykh, Shays, Shays's Rebellion, Shaytan, shazam

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How to use shay in a sentence

That tweet came from Shay Horse, whose bio lists him as an independent photojournalist with ties to Occupy Wall Street.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Current Education Minister Shay Piron (Yesh Atid) says students should not be "required" to visit certain sites.
Israel Attorney General To Chief Rabbi Hopeful: Explain Your Racism|Orly Halpern|July 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The cover of Seventeen features a Filipino-Spanish-Irish actress named Shay Mitchell.
The War on ‘Teen Vogue’: Young Readers Escalate Campaign for More ‘Real Girls’|Abigail Pesta|July 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The explosion of traffic on his Shay story suggested that the incident had galvanized opinion left and right.
Introducing Beast Books|Tina Brown|January 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST

As The Daily Beast reported, the shadow of Audra Shay, the “Facebook Racist” fell over Jindal among others.
The Summer's Winners and Losers|Samuel P. Jacobs|September 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST
He drives a white mule, and has managed to put a top of sail cloth on an old ramshackle buggy, which he calls a 'shay.'
The Cromptons|Mary J. Holmes
But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay As fresh as on Lisbon earthquake-day!
The Book of Humorous Verse|Various
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay, "Huddup!"
The Book of Humorous Verse|Various
You may've noticed 't I'm jush trifle—er, well, some people ud shay zhrunk, Toffski—rude 'n' dish'gree'ble people dshay zhrunk.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York|Lemuel Ely Quigg
But they say he has not won a single aërial handicap since that American professor of yours harnessed him to a one-hoss shay.
Tales of Fantasy and Fact|Brander Matthews

British Dictionary definitions for shay

shay

/ (ʃeɪ) /

noun

a dialect word for chaise

Word Origin for shay

C18: back formation from chaise, mistakenly thought to be plural

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