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quey Sc. and north. dial.|kweɪ|
Forms: α. 4 qwy, 5 qui, 5–6 qwye, 6 quy, 6–7 quye; 5 que, 5–9 quee; 8– quey; 6 koy, 6–9 quoy, 9 coy. β. north. 5–9 why(e, 6 qwhy, 7–8 whee, whie, 7–9 whey, 9 wy(e, etc.
[a. ON. kvíga (Sw. qviga, Da. kvie), app. f. kú cow.]
A young cow before it has had a calf; a heifer.
α1374Durh. Halm. Rolls (Surtees) 124, xij stots et qwyis. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 669/10 Hec juuenca, quee. 1485Will in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 277 That Elyne Peke have a quye. 1508Dunbar Flyting 142 Beggand koy and ox. 1513Douglas æneis iv. ii. 19 Ane vntamyt ȝoung quoy. 1673Depos. Cast. York (Surtees) 196 A quye..which now pines away. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. i, Ye..sauld your crummock, and her bassand quey. 1768A. Ross Fort. Shepherdess iii. 112 The beef of the new slaughter'd quoy. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, If Gowans, the brockit cow, has a quey. 1884G. S. Streatfeild Lincoln & Danes 263 The garthman..will be proud to show you..the stots and quees.
β1483Cath. Angl. 416/1 A Why, bucula, juuenca. 1565Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 230, vj oxen iiijor kye or qwhyes. 1614Inv. in Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Arch. Soc. III. 113, 20 stotts, 5 whies, 14 younger neats. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Whee or Whey, a Word us'd in Yorkshire, for an Heifer. 1802in Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 23, I carried our whye to the bull.
b. Comb. quey-calf [= ON. kvígukalfr, Sw. qvigkalf, Da. kviekalv], a female calf.
1568Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 293, I gyue vnto..my dowghter one quye calfe. 1575in R. Welford Hist. Newcastle (1885) II. 465 The first whey calf that God sends him. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, Twa quey cawfs I'll yearly to them give. 1855Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 506/2 The quey-calf occupies the near, and the bull-calf the off-side horn.
Hence ˈqueyock (also 6 quiok, 7 quoy-, quyach, 9 queyoch, etc.); = quey.
1513Douglas æneis viii. iv. 76 In the cave..a quyok lowis. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. iv, The quiokis war nevir slane quhill they wer with calfe. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 2 b, Item for the Serjant, ane colpindach (ane quyach, ane ȝoung kow). |