thay

thay

1. Eye dialect spelling of the.
   • 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford‎:

     "The chaps as catches the big fishes, sir," went on the keeper, getting confidential, "is thay cussed night-line poachers."

thay

1. Eye dialect spelling of say, to indicate a speaker with a speech impediment such as a lisp.
   • 1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's‎:

     "Good girlth don't thay tho," said sweet little Charlie rather shocked.

   • 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Bravery‎:

     Do you mean to thay I am no gentleman, thir?

thay

1. Obsolete spelling of they
   • 1506, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1‎:

     Yet fynde I another sort almoste as bad as thay.

   • 1566, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)‎:

     But potent is he against whome thei faught; for when thay wicked war in greatast securitie, then begane God to schaw his anger.

   • 1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush‎:

     Law bless us! there was four of us on this stairkes, four as nice young men as you ever see: Mr. Bruffy's young man, Mr. Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs.

thay

1. Alternative form of þei

• “thei (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 May 2018.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰaj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰaj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰaj˧˧]

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 替 (SV: thế).

thay (𠊝, 𠳙, 𠼷, 𫢼)

1. to change; to replace

thay

1. Used as a modifier to indicate surprise.
   • 2016, Trầm Hương, Trong cơn lốc xoáy, part I, NXB Phụ nữ, page 24:

     Kỳ lạ thay, sự lạnh lẽo của Luisa với đàn ông lại là nguồn năng lượng dồi dào làm tiệm nhuộm của cô khởi sắc.

     How strange: Luisa's aloofness towards men was an abundant source of energy making her dyeing shop thrive.

   Synonym: ơi