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shay

[ shey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Chiefly Dialect.

a chaise.

shay

/ ʃ��ɪ /

noun

a dialect word for chaise

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of shay¹

1710–20; respelling and back formation from chaise (taken as plural)

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of shay¹

C18: back formation from chaise , mistakenly thought to be plural

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And now she was saying “shay you know” and Ifemelu did not have the heart to tell her that nobody said “shay” anymore.

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Vincent Marotta Sr., who as a creator of the Mr. Coffee machine helped send the percolator the way of the one-horse shay, died on Saturday at his home in Pepper Pike, Ohio.

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YouTube user “shay Israel” posted the video on Thursday under the title “snuggle time with mama Jules.”

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“Shay shay!” she said now, whenever she saw him, whether she had reason to thank him or not.

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Rising at daylight we take a small open carriage—a kind of "one horse shay"—for our ride.

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