Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The letter y.
- n. An object shaped like a Y.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See wie.
- n. The letter Y, or something resembling it.
Wiktionary
- n. The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.
- n. A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of track.
- n. poetic, obsolete A warrior or fighter.
- n. poetic, obsolete A hero; a man, person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The letter Y.
- n. A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet
Etymologies
- Old English wiga. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The trains reversed direction on what American railroaders called a wye-Europeans called it a turning triangle-which allowed trains to back up to any one of ten offloading ramps, and the Russians were doing it with skill and aplomb.”
“I really just need the "wye" to be displayed in profile view, but if it part of the vertical structure so be it.”
“MABERRY: You were at the forefront of the against development by Imperial College at Wye, Kent, starting the web-site save-wye. org.”
“How bout you take your poisonous drivel and F off. wye”
“For my purposes, I prefer to call those words “Slandernyms”. wye says:”
“He has plenty to smile about while the rest of us have to eat the wreckage he helped create. wye”
“June 7, 2010 at 9:07 am wye ai nawt git dis in mai seriell?”
Free kitteh wif every box* - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Dunno wye – Ai haz maed dem in2 lols, so dey shud be biziblol naow!”
Can you direct me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai wanna be x stinkt – dass wye Ai yooze a ghud dee odrunt!”
If you’re gonna be one of us - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai haz bean der sebrul tiems – Puddy_tat yoost 2 lib dere an we got inbolbd wiv teh transport myoozeeum – dere iz a speshul fing at teh myoozeeum an dat iz wye Ai ser goin dis tiem.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wye’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Desserts of Random Palavery
Another of my Random Palavery lists, still an eclectic listing of terms that catch my eye and ear. It can't be helped. I am, (as a former partner phrased it) a word-bird.
chablis, ervy, keek, armiger, argand lamp, arblast, milch-cow, cow-calf units, durrus, tom noddy, low-bell, cargo cult and 139 more...
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Really Cool Three-Letter Words
None of your "the" and "get" here. No, no. This is the place for auk and sty, and words of that ilk.
One might think that being limited to only three letters would prevent many words fro...auk, sty, ilk, ani, owl, zit, ink, eau, rum, pus, pwe, pyx and 105 more...
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Peregrination
thoroughfare, peripatetic, wanderlust, cowcatcher, peregrination, itinerant, nomadic, vagabond, gadabout, exclave, caboose, viaduct and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wye.
dontcry I know. But ours is not to wonder Wye... Jun 29, 2009
rolig I had no idea that the Wye Oak was gone. *Wiping a tear away* Why, O Wye? Jun 28, 2009
dontcry Oh yes, the porch is close. You can almost see EC from the porch! Jun 27, 2009
milosrdenstvi Sweet! I live in Ellicott City! I had no idea the porch was so close! Jun 27, 2009
bilby Y. Jun 27, 2009
sionnach The governor of Maryland has a heifer on his desk? Shades of Spamalot. Jun 27, 2009
dontcry W. Howard County Jun 27, 2009
milosrdenstvi They have since made it into the Governor's desk.
Where in MD do you live, dc? Jun 27, 2009
dontcry For a long time, the Wye Oak was a famous and very, very old oak tree in Maryland. It survived from sometime in the 1500's until a storm took it down in 2002. Jun 26, 2009
hernesheir (n): a young cow, or young heifer. Yorkshire dialect. Cf. Old Norse kvíga. Jun 26, 2009