Uey vs Dey - What's the difference?
uey | dey |
(Australia, Canada, UK, US, colloquial, informal) A U-turn.
* 1987 , Kelly Lawrence, The Gone Shots , Franklin Watts, US,
* 2000 , Louis J. Fagan, Angelo , Independent Publishers Group, US,
* 2006 , Richard Crick, My Word Is My Bonus , AuthorHouse,
* 2007 , Richard Marinick, In For a Pound , Justin, Charles & Co., US,
The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
As a noun uey
is (australia|canada|uk|us|colloquial|informal) a u-turn.As a proper noun dey is
the tenth solar month of the persian calendar.uey
English
Alternative forms
* Uey * U-ey * youeeNoun
(en noun)page 280,
- “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey .
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- Barry musta figured Jamie?s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.
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- “Sid, could you please just go up Holborn a little way, do a uey and pull in over there, where we can see the entrance over on this side.”
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- Climbing into the Mustang, McCauley banged a Uey in front of the post office and stopped for the red light half a block up at the corner of Sea Street.