different between uey vs dey

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /de?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: day

Etymology 1

From Middle English deye, deie, daie, from Old English d??e (“maker of bread; baker; dairy-maid”), from Proto-Germanic *daigij? (“kneader of bread, maid”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey??- (“to knead, form, build”). Cognate with Swedish deja, Icelandic deigja (“dairy-maid”); compare dairy, dough, lady.

Alternative forms

• daie, deie, deye

Noun

dey (plural deys)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.

Related terms

• dairy
• lady

Etymology 2

From French dey, from Turkish day?.

Noun

dey (plural deys)

1. (historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:

     […] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

dey

1. Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English.
2. Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African-American Vernacular English. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

• dey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “dey”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Dye, d'ye, dye, ye'd, yed

French

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (day?), from Persian ????? (dâyi, “maternal uncle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?j/

Noun

dey m (plural deys)

1. dey (ruler of the Regency of Algiers)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tei?/
• Rhymes: -ei?

Verb

dey

1. inflection of deyja:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dey

1. Alternative form of day

Etymology 2

Pronoun

dey

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Etymology 3

Noun

dey

1. Alternative form of dee

Nigerian Pidgin

Alternative forms

• deh

Etymology

From English there.

Verb

dey

1. is, are