different between uey vs bey

English

Alternative forms

• Uey, U-ey, u-ie, yewy, youee

Etymology

From U(-turn) +? -ey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?.i/
• Rhymes: -u?i

Noun

uey (plural ueys)

1. (Australia, Canada, Britain, US, colloquial, informal) A U-turn.
   • 1987, Kelly Lawrence, The Gone Shots, Franklin Watts, US, page 280,

     “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey.

   • 2000, Louis J. Fagan, Angelo, Independent Publishers Group, US, page 324,

     Barry musta figured Jamie?s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.

   • 2001, Steve Aylett, Only an Alligator, Scar Garden 2010 (The Complete Accomplice), p. 28:

     Since it pulled a U-ey and snapped Fang on the noggin, Barny had been dressing it in a flowery skirt and hat for reasons which are still a mystery.

   • 2006, Richard Crick, My Word Is My Bonus, AuthorHouse, page 255,

     “ […] Sid, could you please just go up Holborn a little way, do a uey and pull in over there, where we can see the entrance over on this side.”

   • 2007, Richard Marinick, In For a Pound, Justin, Charles & Co., US, page 59,

     Climbing into the Mustang, McCauley banged a Uey in front of the post office and stopped for the red light half a block up at the corner of Sea Street.

Translations

See also

• flip a bitch (US)
• bang a uey (New England)

Anagrams

• Yue

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

uey (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of hu?yi

English

Etymology

From Turkish bey (“gentleman, chief”), from Old Turkic ????????? (b²g /bég/, “chief, titled man”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /be?/
• (AusE) IPA^(key): /bæ?/
• (GenAm) IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

bey (plural beys)

1. (historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 512:

     She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.

   • 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, p. 15:

     Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.

2. in various other places, a prince or nobleman

Derived terms

• begum

Translations

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “bey”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Anagrams

• 'bye, Bye, Eby, bye

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?j/

Noun

bey m (plural beys)

1. bey

German

Preposition

bey

1. Obsolete spelling of bei

Middle English

Noun

bey

1. Alternative form of bee

Spanish

Etymology

From Turkish bey.

Noun

bey m (plural beyes)

1. bey

Talysh

Verb

bey

1. to be

Conjugation

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg), from Old Anatolian Turkish ??? (beg, “ruler”). Akin to Old Turkic ????????? (beg, “chief, titled man”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (beg, “lord, chief”), Karakhanid ????? (b?g, “chief, a woman's husband”).

There are different theories about the further etymology of the word.

• According to one theory the word may ultimately come from Middle Chinese ? (MC p?æk?, “hundred”), ? (MC p?æk?, “the head of a hundred men”), or ? (MC p?æk?, “eldest brother, father's older brother > count”) ~ ? (MC p?æk?, “hegemon”).
• Another theory states that the word may have its origins in Middle Iranian, specifically Sogdian [script needed] (baga, “lord, master”) or Old Persian ???? (BG, “god”), all from Proto-Iranian *bagáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *b?agás (“god”, literally “dispenser”). However, German Turkologist Gerhard Doerfer assessed the derivation from an Iranian language as quite uncertain and pointed out that the word may be genuinely Turkic.

Unrelated to Turkish bay (“gentleman”).

Noun

bey (definite accusative beyi, plural beyler)

1. gentleman, mister
2. lord, master
3. husband

Declension

Synonyms

• bay
• beyefendi

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: bej
• ? Armenian: ??? (bey)
• ? Azerbaijani: b?y
• ? Bulgarian: ??? (bej)
• ? Dutch: bei
• ? English: bey
• ? Finnish: bey
• ? French: bey
• ? Georgian: ??? (bai)
• ? German: Bey
• ? Greek: ????? (béis), ???? (véis)
• ? Hungarian: bey
• ? Portuguese: bei
• ? Russian: ??? (bej)
• ? Spanish: bey

References

Wolof

Verb

bey

1. to farm

Derived terms