English Explanatory Dictionary

quoy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An area of wasteland (or common land) now enclosed for farming.

Word forms

quoy quoys

Etymology

From the Norn reflex of Old Norse kví (“enclosure”).

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