Tey vs Gey - What's the difference?
tey | gey |
an Old English measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 171:
(Scotland, Ireland, northern England) Very.
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:
(Scotland, Ireland, northern England) Fairly good; considerable.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
*:They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.
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As a noun tey
is an old english measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.As an adverb gey is
(scotland|ireland|northern england) very.As an adjective gey is
(scotland|ireland|northern england) fairly good; considerable.tey
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tey or toise, the modern fathom, is employed as a measure of rope.
Anagrams
* * * ----gey
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.
