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scye

/saɪ/

scye noun: an armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.

Noun

scye (plural scyes)

  1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
    • on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

Forms of scye

pluralscyes

Origin of scye

Borrowed from Scots sey (“armhole, cut of beef”), from Middle Scots say, possibly from Old Norse segi, sigi (“chunk, bite”), from Proto-Germanic *segô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Words that rhyme with scye

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Questions about scye

What does scye mean?
Scye means an armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
What part of speech is scye?
Scye is a noun.
How do you pronounce scye?
Scye is pronounced /saɪ/.
What is the plural of scye?
The plural of scye is scyes.

Words near scye in the dictionary

  1. scybalas
  2. scybalous
  3. scybalum
  4. scydmaenid
  5. scydmaenids
  6. scye
  7. scyelite
  8. scyen
  9. scyence
  10. scyens
  11. scyes

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