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Kye vs Lye - What's the difference?

kye | lye |

As nouns the difference between kye and lye

is that kye is (cow) or kye can be a korean fundraising meeting while lye is an alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes) or lye can be (uk|railways) a short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.

As a verb lye is

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kye

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ky, kye, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(head)
  • (cow)
  • *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

    From (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Korean fundraising meeting.

    • Anagrams

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    lye

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia lye)
  • An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
  • Potassium or sodium hydroxide.
    • See also
    * ("lye" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, railways) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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