quey

quey [kwey] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural queys. Scot. and North England.

1. a heifer.

Origin of quey 1325–75; Middle English quy Old Norse kvīga Examples from the Web for quey Historical Examples of quey

We put some pieces of the quey in the barge and then went on board.

The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1

Robert Forbes

I had a cake made for the occasion, which Quey Ginn cut up with much pleasure.

Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak

Harriette McDougall

The dairy farmers there retain the quey calves for maintaining the number of the cows, while they feed the male calves for veal.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849

Various

Word Origin and History for quey n.

“young cow,” Scottish and Northern English dialect, late 14c., from Old Norse kviga, apparently from ku “cow” (see cow (n.)).