Kay
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A female first name often short for Katherine and also a family name
- proper noun
- /keɪ/
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Kay
- Just after they became lovers, Frost proposed marriage and pressed Kay to divorce her husband.
- Frost and Kay
- Kay Thompson
- Kay and Ted
OK, let's talk about Linda Kay's Naked Heat.
- OK, let's talk about Linda Kay's Naked Heat.
- And then we'll do Kay Bromberg's Driven series.
- My boyfriend, who I'll call Kay, and I have been dating for four years.
- Now I found out that Jay told Matt that Kay had a boyfriend at that birthday party.
- The girl that I live with, Kay, is pregnant and is due early next year.
- Like I don't know if it's Kay Ki, I think it's Ki, maybe it's Kay.
- Right now I'm reading Radical Uncertainty by John Kay and Mervyn King.
- No, we had a facial the other day, me and Kay, and I can't move my face like this.
- Sarah Kate Silverman at Sarah Kay Silverman on Twitter.
- Snow R, Noah Kay and Sean V.
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Examples
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I was just telling Kay here about our new hobby.
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'Kay, make a wish.
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Kay, Kay, listen to me, okay?
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But he was so upset that Kay had to calm him down.
Academic text (1996) -
Well, plenty to talk about, as ever, with Kay.
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You need to get away from there Kay.
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If we cannot convince Kay, how are we to convince the rest of the world?
Fiction book (1991) -
All we have to do is make sure that Kay doesn't see him.
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Mary, Kay, go ahead.
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'Kay, can you help me with this project?' she asked excitedly.
Surface Forms
Kay main
Etymology
The name Kay is often a short form of Katherine, a Greek name linked to a word meaning 'pure', so you can remember Kay as a small, friendly form of Kate. It is also used as a family name.