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shay

/ʃeɪ/

shay noun: a chaise.

shay: a chaise
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Noun (1)

shay (plural shays)

  1. (archaic) A chaise.
    • The poſt-ſhay ſhall be at the door by ſix o'clock in the morning; and if Miſs Fanny does not get into it, vvhy I vvill, and ſo there's an end of the matter.1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act...
    • Master sent me over with the shay-cart, to carry your luggage up to the house. He’d ha’ sent some saddle-horses, but he thought you’d rather walk, being a cold day.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Shay

Shay

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A diminutive of the male given name Seamus.

Noun (2) capitalized: Shay

Shay (plural Shays)

  1. A geared steam locomotive, patented by Ephraim Shay.

shay meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

shay in Marathi

शै, शाय

shay in Urdu

شئے

shay in Bengali

শায়, শয়

shay in Telugu

షే
More languagesFewer languages
shay in Malayalam
ഷെയ്
shay in Punjabi
ਸ਼ੇਅ
shay in Gujarati
શેય
shay in Odia
ଶାଯ଼, ଶେ

Forms of shay

pluralshays
pluralShays

Origin of shay

A back-formation from chaise (originally from French), with the /z/ of that word taken as the plural ending -s.

Variant of Shea, from Irish Ó Séaghdha.

Words that rhyme with shay

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Questions about shay

What does shay mean?
Shay means a chaise.
What is shay in Marathi?
Shay in Marathi is शै, शाय. See Shay meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is shay?
Shay can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce shay?
Shay is pronounced /ʃeɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of shay?
The plural of shay is shays.

Words near shay in the dictionary

  1. shawty
  2. Shawver
  3. Shawvers
  4. Shawwal
  5. Shawyer
  6. shay
  7. shaya
  8. shaya root
  9. shaya roots
  10. shayak
  11. shayaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shay (page history and authors); Shay (page history and authors); shay (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shay (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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