Definitions for tyees

tyees ty·ee

Spelling: [tahy-ee]
IPA: /ˈtaɪ i/

Tyees is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in tyees (eesty).

Definitions for tyees

noun

  1. chinook salmon.

Origin of tyees

1790-1800, Americanism; Chinook Jargon: chief, boss (Nootka ta·yi· elder brother, senior); as a name for the fish perhaps analogous with

Examples for tyees

"The tyee will be in from Valparaiso about that time," he answered.

They arranged it during the next few minutes, and then Jimmy was rowed off to the tyee.

Guess I can't stop his getting the tyee, and she's the second boat he has taken from me.

Mr. Layard could not induce them to touch anything from the bank, but a tyee of 18lb.

The tyee salmon, "Oncorhynchus tschawytscha," has many names.

It was scarcely two hours since he had arrived on board the tyee.

On your way out West to join the tyee you wrote her every day on the train.

The words were really Waw-kash (a word of salutation) and tyee.

If we don' skin um, we goin' to mak' Sah-ha-lee tyee ver' mad.

Jimmy's face grew a trifle hard as he heard it, for she was the tyee.

Word Value for tyees
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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