"kew" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kews",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "kew (plural kews)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Latin letter names",
          "orig": "en:Latin letter names",
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            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Writing",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Lemmas",
            "Human",
            "Communication"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Alternative form: cue"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, Staff Rides and Regimental Tours, London: Hugh Rees, page 305",
          "text": "The following telegram with explain this: \"Your suggestion approved stop the troops proceeding to ex those to wye and zed and the detachment at kew must be completed to ten days rations.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber",
          "text": "the pardonable confusion for which some blame the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to which the pees with their caps awry are quite as often as not taken for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often as not taken for pews with their tails in their mouths",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak, Titan Publishing",
          "text": "\"As usual I got me pees an' kews mixed up.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The name of the Latin-script letter Q."
      ],
      "id": "en-kew-en-noun-uSYkP08n",
      "links": [
        [
          "Q",
          "Q#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kew"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thank you"
      },
      "expansion": "Aphetic form of thank you",
      "name": "aphetic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of thank you.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "int"
      },
      "expansion": "kew",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "thank you"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, F. E. Higgins, A Tangle of Traitors (The Phenomenals; 1), London: Macmillan Children's Books, page 28",
          "text": "‘Kew,’ she said politely, and then took off, expertly negotiating the narrow aisles between the stalls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of thank you."
      ],
      "id": "en-kew-en-intj-04Z6SXmb",
      "links": [
        [
          "thank you",
          "thank you#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, uncommon) Clipping of thank you."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping",
        "informal",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kew"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English aphetic forms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kews",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "kew (plural kews)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Latin letter names"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Alternative form: cue"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, Staff Rides and Regimental Tours, London: Hugh Rees, page 305",
          "text": "The following telegram with explain this: \"Your suggestion approved stop the troops proceeding to ex those to wye and zed and the detachment at kew must be completed to ten days rations.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber",
          "text": "the pardonable confusion for which some blame the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to which the pees with their caps awry are quite as often as not taken for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often as not taken for pews with their tails in their mouths",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak, Titan Publishing",
          "text": "\"As usual I got me pees an' kews mixed up.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The name of the Latin-script letter Q."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Q",
          "Q#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kew"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English aphetic forms",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thank you"
      },
      "expansion": "Aphetic form of thank you",
      "name": "aphetic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of thank you.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "int"
      },
      "expansion": "kew",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "thank you"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, F. E. Higgins, A Tangle of Traitors (The Phenomenals; 1), London: Macmillan Children's Books, page 28",
          "text": "‘Kew,’ she said politely, and then took off, expertly negotiating the narrow aisles between the stalls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of thank you."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thank you",
          "thank you#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, uncommon) Clipping of thank you."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping",
        "informal",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kew"
}