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- noun Plural form of
ki-yi .
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Examples
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Then went up to the roofs the roaring and the laughter of a great crowd; yells, cat-calls, ki-yis and hootings many times multiplied.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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Thus caparisoned, he mounted a pony and came charging across the lawn, uttering wild ki-yis and quirting his mount at every jump.
Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910
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The other cowboys were up like a flash and into their saddles, uttering sharp "ki-yis" and driving in the spurs while they laid their quirts mercilessly over the rumps of the ponies.
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains Frank Gee Patchin 1893
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