"tay" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea. The digraph ea represented /eː/ in Early Modern English; it later merged chiefly with ee, but regionally or sporadically with ay (in standard English break, great, steak). Compare the song Polly put the kettle on, where tea rhymes with away.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tay (plural tays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 10 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 1 1 0 0 25 8 15 0 1 15 0 0 21 12 0 0 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 10 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 1 1 0 0 25 8 15 0 1 15 0 0 21 12 0 0 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856 October 18, The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, Sydney, page 6, column 1:",
          "text": "\"[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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 207:",
          "text": "\"There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel,\" called old Bridget from the hall.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tea."
      ],
      "id": "en-tay-en-noun-xv9yVhYY",
      "links": [
        [
          "Tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or dialect) Tea."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Polly put the kettle on"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "tā"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/teɪ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tay.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tay"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea. The digraph ea represented /eː/ in Early Modern English; it later merged chiefly with ee, but regionally or sporadically with ay (in standard English break, great, steak). Compare the song Polly put the kettle on, where tea rhymes with away.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tay (plural tays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 10 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪ",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1856 October 18, The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, Sydney, page 6, column 1:",
          "text": "\"[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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 207:",
          "text": "\"There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel,\" called old Bridget from the hall.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tea."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or dialect) Tea."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Polly put the kettle on"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "tā"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/teɪ/"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tay"
}