wey

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wā, IPA: /weɪ/, X-SAMPA: /weI/

Rhymes: -eɪ

• Homophones: way, weigh, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wey (plural weys)

1. An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
   • c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:

     Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.

   • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202:

     Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208:

     Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.

   • (Can we date this quote?): A wey is 6 tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. — Simmonds.

Anagrams

• wye
• yew

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Nigerian Pidgin

Conjunction

wey

1. that

Pronoun

wey

1. who

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wei/

Etymology

Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /gw/ sounds.

Noun

wey m and f (plural weyes)

1. (Mexico, colloquial slang) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
2. (colloquial) dude, guy, buddy

Synonyms

• carnal
• cuate
• tonto
• bato