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shay

[ shey ]

noun

, Chiefly Dialect.
  1. a chaise.


shay

/ ʃeɪ /

noun

  1. See chaise
    a dialect word for chaise


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shay1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of shay1

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

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Example Sentences

That tweet came from Shay Horse, whose bio lists him as an independent photojournalist with ties to Occupy Wall Street.

Current Education Minister Shay Piron (Yesh Atid) says students should not be "required" to visit certain sites.

The cover of Seventeen features a Filipino-Spanish-Irish actress named Shay Mitchell.

The explosion of traffic on his Shay story suggested that the incident had galvanized opinion left and right.

As The Daily Beast reported, the shadow of Audra Shay, the “Facebook Racist” fell over Jindal among others.

He drives a white mule, and has managed to put a top of sail cloth on an old ramshackle buggy, which he calls a 'shay.'

But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay As fresh as on Lisbon earthquake-day!

Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay, "Huddup!"

You may've noticed 't I'm jush trifle—er, well, some people ud shay zhrunk, Toffski—rude 'n' dish'gree'ble people dshay zhrunk.

But they say he has not won a single aërial handicap since that American professor of yours harnessed him to a one-hoss shay.

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