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exclamation jeɪjeɪ informal Expressing triumph, approval, or encouragement. Example sentencesExamples - My mum, attempting to make me excited about learning, was like, ‘you'll get to practice resuscitation on people and stuff, yay!’
- I'm going out tonight, I have a movie thing tomorrow, I have a party next week… yay!
- I also got some early birthday presents including long purple stripey socks (yay yay yay!)
- Exercise more - Finally back in this category after a few months off - I am thinking about exercise a lot and have started doing my little exercise routine again - yay!
- I shared excellent nighttime conversations with Peter Merholz (who just started up his blog again - yay!)
- While waiting for him I looked for something to get Don… hehe… found something useful that he'd enjoy… yay!
- Nai brought the GOB album she won so Jen burned a copy for me… yay!
- Seconds later… £10 arrived in my email box… yay!
- This is an all-points bulletin: Lizz is back online, yay!
- Not on Monday cos tomorrow night is the Oscars, yay!
- More books that have been on my list for absolutely ages, yay!
- In USA, we're going to Florida, New York and Los Angeles… yay!
- Always remember, Johnny - American lives and American tragedies (and American movies, yay!) are better, brighter and more vital than anyone else's.
- Finally, finally someone from my ‘family’ comes visit me in June, yay!
- I think I have some good ones (and they're shorter than the last ones, yay!
- I've also been promised breakfast for the next ‘morning’ so yay!
- There's a full blown thunderstorm going on outside. Considering that it hasn't rained in weeks, we've got major water restrictions going on, and worse ones being threatened… yay!
- Zoe came and got me and Chris we went to Leas Club where we meet Annie, Ellie and Lauren (triple yay!) and Claire was also there… was still depressed…
- We went back to the JXC and worked on our ethics essay and I ended up finalising it and printed it out. Yay!
Origin 1960s: perhaps an alteration of yeah. adverb jeɪjeɪ informal 1(with adjectives of measure) to this extent; so. I knew him when he was yay big Example sentencesExamples - You're probably used to seeing the American armadillo, sometimes called the midget armadillo, which only grows to be about yay big.
- 1.1 To a considerable degree; much.
Origin 1960s: probably a variant of yea1. exclamationjeɪyā informal Expressing triumph, approval, or encouragement. Example sentencesExamples - In USA, we're going to Florida, New York and Los Angeles… yay!
- I'm going out tonight, I have a movie thing tomorrow, I have a party next week… yay!
- I've also been promised breakfast for the next ‘morning’ so yay!
- Zoe came and got me and Chris we went to Leas Club where we meet Annie, Ellie and Lauren (triple yay!) and Claire was also there… was still depressed…
- Finally, finally someone from my ‘family’ comes visit me in June, yay!
- I shared excellent nighttime conversations with Peter Merholz (who just started up his blog again - yay!)
- Nai brought the GOB album she won so Jen burned a copy for me… yay!
- Always remember, Johnny - American lives and American tragedies (and American movies, yay!) are better, brighter and more vital than anyone else's.
- I also got some early birthday presents including long purple stripey socks (yay yay yay!)
- This is an all-points bulletin: Lizz is back online, yay!
- My mum, attempting to make me excited about learning, was like, ‘you'll get to practice resuscitation on people and stuff, yay!’
- Exercise more - Finally back in this category after a few months off - I am thinking about exercise a lot and have started doing my little exercise routine again - yay!
- We went back to the JXC and worked on our ethics essay and I ended up finalising it and printed it out. Yay!
- While waiting for him I looked for something to get Don… hehe… found something useful that he'd enjoy… yay!
- Seconds later… £10 arrived in my email box… yay!
- More books that have been on my list for absolutely ages, yay!
- I think I have some good ones (and they're shorter than the last ones, yay!
- There's a full blown thunderstorm going on outside. Considering that it hasn't rained in weeks, we've got major water restrictions going on, and worse ones being threatened… yay!
- Not on Monday cos tomorrow night is the Oscars, yay!
Origin 1960s: perhaps an alteration of yeah. adverbyājeɪ informal (with adjectives of measure) to this extent; so. I knew him when he was yay big Example sentencesExamples - You're probably used to seeing the American armadillo, sometimes called the midget armadillo, which only grows to be about yay big.
Origin 1960s: probably a variant of yea. |