tay

plural tays

1. dialectalobsoleteTea.

   "There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel," called old Bridget from the hall.

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 207

   2 more examples

   Well, ma'am, you see it was whin I was jist about the age of Mary, there. I was comin' home late one Monday evenin' from the market; for my aunt Kitty, God be marciful to her! would keep me to take a cup of tay.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 381

   "[T]hen the Tulip, - ah! didn't the Tulip die hard, - he fout hard for it, even after he had a hole in his head as big as a tay cup."

   1856 October 18, The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, Sydney, page 6, column 1

1. The longest river in Scotland, United Kingdom, originating on the slopes of Ben Lui and flowing eastwards through the city of Perth before becoming an estuary, the Firth of Tay.

   A Metro-Cammell diesel multiple-unit from Dundee approaches Perth on the single-line bridge over the Tay in July, 1961.

   1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 269, photo caption

2. A river in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, a left tributary of the Rideau.
3. A township in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

plural Tays

1. countableuncountableA surname.

plural Tays

1. countableuncountableA diminutive of the unisex given name Taylor.