Kye
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 plural of cow archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural
"Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to."
- 2 Cocoa (the drink). UK, slang, uncountable
"[…] wrapped in layers of warm clothing against rushing icy air, and all longing for bubbling hot kye (Navy cocoa) at midnight."
- 3 A Korean fundraising meeting.
- 1 A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Example
More examples"Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to."
Etymology
From Middle English ky, kye, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow and compare kine (“cows”).
From Korean 계(契) (gye).
Possibly a modern phonetic rendering of Kai, or a short form of Kyle and Kyler.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.