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Weve vs Weyve - What's the difference?

weve | weyve |

As a contraction weve

is alternative form of we've|lang=en.

As a verb weyve is

obsolete form of lang=en.

As a noun weyve is

a female outlaw.

weve

English

Contraction

(en-cont)
  • (informal, nonstandard)
    • ----

    weyve

    English

    Verb

    (weyv)
  • * c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale , line 1176.
    • "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a female outlaw
  • * 1958 T.H. White, The Once and Future King , p.107
    • "She was a true Weyve - except for her long hair, which most of the female outlaws in those days used to clip."
    (Webster 1913)