different between uey vs ley

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

• IPA^(key): /le?/, /li?/
• Rhymes: -e?, -i?

Etymology 1

See lea.

Noun

ley (plural leys)

1. Alternative spelling of lea
2. A ley line.
   • 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic

     For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]

Adjective

ley (not comparable)

1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

Etymology 2

Noun

ley

1. Archaic form of lye.

Etymology 3

Noun

ley

1. (obsolete) Law.

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Anagrams

• Ely, lye, yel

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?ah, l?a?e (“a clearing in the woods”).

Noun

ley (plural leys)

1. an open field or meadow

Descendants

• English: ley, lea

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin l?gem, accusative of l?x. Compare Old French lei, loi.

Noun

ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)

1. law

Descendants

• Catalan: llei
• Occitan: lei

Portuguese

Noun

ley f (plural leys)

1. Obsolete spelling of lei

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?gem, singular accusative of l?x (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s, from *le?- (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lei/, [?lei?]

Noun

ley f (plural leyes)

1. law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
2. law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
3. law (particular piece of legislation)
4. religion, credence, worship of a god

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• leal
• legal
• legislar
• legítimo
• lindo

Further reading

• “ley” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.