wey
See also: Wey
English
Etymology
From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġe (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: wā, IPA(key): /weɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
- Homophones: way, weigh, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
wey (plural weys)
- (uncommon, archaic) 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[1], volume 27, page 202:
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6½ 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.
- 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms[2], page 410:
- WEY, WEIGH, an English measure of weight; for wool, equal to 6½ tods of 28 lbs.; a load or five quarters of wheat; 40 bushels of salt, each 56 lbs.; 32 cloves of cheese, each 7 lbs.; 48 bushels of oats and barley; 2 to 3 cwt. of butter.
- c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
wey
- Alternative form of whey
Nigerian Pidgin
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Conjunction
wey
Pronoun
wey
Spanish
Etymology
Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /gw/ sounds.
Pronunciation
Noun
wey m or f (plural weyes)
- (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
- (colloquial) dude, guy, buddy
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