scye
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scye
- /saɪ/
Sounds like sigh, psi, xi, sai, Si, Sy, Cy · Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
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”).
noun scyes
- 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.
