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Fy vs Cate - What's the difference?

fy | cate |

As an initialism fy

is fiscal year.

As a noun cate is

castle.

fy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fi ‘pooh!’.

Alternative forms

* fie

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (archaic) Expressing disapproval.

    • Etymology 2

    Aphetized from defy .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) To digest.
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    cate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
  • * 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
    • Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
  • * 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
    • Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
  • * 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
    • All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
  • * 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
    • He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.
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