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why aye

why aye is the alternative form of wye aye.

Meaning of wye aye

Interjection

  1. (Durham, Geordie, Wearside, Northumberland) A positive yes, of course.
    • Wye aye man!

Questions about why aye

What is why aye the alternative form of?
Why aye is the alternative form of wye aye.

Words near why aye in the dictionary

  1. whves
  2. whvs
  3. why
  4. why am I not surprised
  5. why and wherefore
  6. why aye
  7. why buy a book when you can join a library
  8. why buy a book when you can join the library
  9. why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
  10. why come
  11. why for

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Adapted from Wiktionary: why aye (page history and authors); wye aye (page history and authors). 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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