English Explanatory Dictionary

scye

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.

Pronunciation

/saɪ/

Word forms

scye scyes

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots sey (“armhole, cut of beef”), from Middle Scots say, possibly from Old Norse segi, sigi (“chunk, bite”), from Proto-Germanic *segô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

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