Kye vs Rye - What's the difference?
kye | rye |
(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.
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
Rye bread.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
Caraway
Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
A disease of hawks.
As nouns the difference between kye and rye
is that kye is (cow) or kye can be a korean fundraising meeting while rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.kye
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ky, kye, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl).Anagrams
* ----rye
English
(wikipedia rye)Noun
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- (Ainsworth)
