Definition/Meaning of ey

• English - Noun: ey (plural eyren) (obsolete) An egg . 1787, originally 1381, Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae: Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and breke eyren , and cast into the pot, and make a crudde therof, and colour hit with saffron, and then presse oute the brothe and kerve it on leches; and then take swete creme of almondes, or of cowe mylk, and boyle hit; […] ey (plural eys) A small…
• English - Pronoun: ey (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself) (epicene, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third person) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, one of t he so-called Spivak pronouns, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she . 1996 December 22, Shirley…
• English - Interjection: ey (alternative) Alternative form of hey . 1999, Nilo Cruz, A Bicycle Country, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 2004, →ISBN, act 1, scene 2, page 9: JULIO. (Moves away.) No walking. I told you I’m not walking. / INES. You walked yesterday after the exercises. / JULIO. I can’t today. / INES. Then I’m going outside to smoke! / JULIO. Ey , don’t get angry! 2009, Jacob Polley,…
• English - Anagrams: ye , Ye , YE
• English - See also: other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns suffix -ey