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kyley

kyley is the archaic form of kylie.

Meaning of kylie

Noun

kylie (plural kylies)

  1. (Australia, Western) A boomerang.
    • Then we drove up to the cricket-ground to see them throw their boomerangs or kylies, which they did very cleverly. One of the kylies was broken against a tree, but most of the others flew with unerring precision.1889, Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam, published 2010, page 252

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Forms of kyley

pluralkyleys

Questions about kyley

What is kyley the archaic form of?
Kyley is the archaic form of kylie.

Words near kyley in the dictionary

  1. Kyleigh
  2. Kylen
  3. Kyler
  4. kyles
  5. Kyles of Bute
  6. kyley
  7. kyleys
  8. kylices
  9. kylie
  10. kylies
  11. kylikes

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