Uey vs Wey - What's the difference?
uey | wey |
(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,
An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
* c. 1376 , William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman , Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202:
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208:
* (rfdate): A wey is 6 tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. — Simmonds.
As a noun uey
is (australia|canada|uk|us|colloquial|informal) a u-turn.As a proper noun wey is
an english river which flows through guildford, and is a tributary of the thames.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.
See also
* flip a bitch (US)Anagrams
* ----wey
English
Noun
(en noun)- Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.