kailyard
kailyard noun: a kitchen garden.
Noun
kailyard (plural kailyards)
- A kitchen garden.
- There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II
- A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister
Forms of kailyard
| plural | kailyards |
|---|---|
| alternative form | kailyaird |
| alternative form | kaleyard |
Origin of kailyard
From kail + yard.
Words formed from kailyard
- kailyarder
- kailyardism
- Kailyard school
Questions about kailyard
- What does kailyard mean?
- Kailyard means a kitchen garden.
- What part of speech is kailyard?
- Kailyard is a noun.
- What is the plural of kailyard?
- The plural of kailyard is kailyards.
Words near kailyard in the dictionary
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