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Kype vs Kye - What's the difference?

kype | kye |

As nouns the difference between kype and kye

is that kype is the hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn while kye is irregular plural of cow.

kype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

    • See also

    *Oncorhynchus , a genus named for the kype.

    References

    * kype, Collins English Dictionary * kype, Oxford English Dictionary

    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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