kay
kay Lexical Profile
kay Game Scores & Validity
• interjection
An informal phonetic variant of 'okay', used to express agreement, acknowledgment, or assent.
""Kay, I'll meet you at the library in ten minutes," she replied."
• noun
The spelled-out name of the eleventh letter of the English alphabet (K, k).
"The teacher reminded the students that the word 'knee' begins with a silent kay."
A low bank, reef, or small sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef, especially in the Caribbean and West Indies (an older spelling variant of 'cay' or 'key').
"The fishermen anchored their boat near a sheltered kay to wait out the passing squall."
Scottish A regional Scottish and northern English dialect name for the jackdaw (Coloeus monedula), a small Eurasian crow with dark plumage and pale gray eyes.
"A noisy kay perched atop the stone chimney of the old abbey."
• Rhymes for kay
Word Origin & Etymology
As the spelled-out name of the letter K, it derives from Middle English 'ka', from Old French, ultimately from the Latin and Greek letter 'kappa'. As an informal affirmation, it is a clipped phonetic variant of 'okay', while the geographical sense is an older variant of 'cay', from Spanish 'cayo' (shoal or reef).