different between kyke vs kye

English

Alternative forms

• keke
• kike

Etymology

From Middle English kiken, keken, perhaps a borrowing from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken. Related to Scots keek, West Frisian kytse, Dutch kijken, Swedish kika, Icelandic kíkja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?k/

Verb

kyke (third-person singular simple present kykes, present participle kyking, simple past and past participle kyked)

1. (obsolete) To look steadfastly; to gaze.

   • This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright,
     As he had kyked on the newe mone.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ky, kye, from Old English c? (“cows”), plural of c? (“cow”). Cognate with Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

kye

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of cow
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1

     Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to.

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 23:

     devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• ki
• ky

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

kye (uncountable)

1. (Britain, naval slang) Cocoa (the drink).
   • 2013, David Arnold, Hursey in Conflict: A Story of Love and Victory (page 73)

     Then he walked back to the wheelhouse. Guido arrived with three cups of kye and a plate of hot buttered toast.

Etymology 3

From Korean ?(?) (gye).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kje?/

Noun

kye (plural kyes)

1. A Korean fundraising meeting.

Anagrams

• Key, key

Middle English

Noun

kye

1. Alternative form of kie

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English c?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kae/

Noun

kye

1. plural of coo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?j/

Noun

kye (plural kyes)

1. (South Scots) a key