Kyke vs Kye - What's the difference?
kyke | kye |
(obsolete) To look steadfastly; to gaze.
(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.
As a verb kyke
is to look steadfastly; to gaze.As a noun kye is
irregular plural of cow.kyke
English
Alternative forms
* keke * kikeVerb
(kyk)- This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, / As he had kyked on the newe moon. — Chaucer.