kay
(colloquial) Abbreviation of okay.
kay (plural kays)
The name of the Latin-script letter K.
(colloquial) A kilometer.
(colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
Dated form of cay.
• kya, yak
Kay
A surname derived from several Old and Middle English words; also adopted by immigrants whose surnames began with a K.
A male given name from Welsh derived from the surnames, or from a rare medieval given name (as the Sir Kay of Arthurian legend), Welsh Cai, Latinized as Caius, related to the modern male name Kai.
A short form of Katherine and other female names beginning with a "K"; popular as a middle name.
• kya, yak
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
