kyte

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See also: Kyte and kýtě

English

Noun

kyte (plural kytes)

  1. Obsolete form of kite (bird of prey).
  2. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of kite (the stomach; the belly)

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English cȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, from Proto-Germanic *kūts.

Pronunciation

Noun

kyte (plural kytes)

  1. A kite (the bird of prey)

Descendants

  • English: kite
  • Scots: kyt, kyte
  • Welsh: cud

References

Scots

Etymology

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Noun

kyte (plural kytes)

  1. Belly, stomach
    • c. 1592, Rob Stene, Rob Stene's Dream:
      To cleith his bak, and fill his wame,
      Not sparing napir wyld, nor tame,
      Could not content his emptie kyte,
      Nor quenche his greidy appetyte.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

West Flemish

Noun

kyte f (plural kytn)

  1. calf, back of the leg below the knee