Definitions

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  • An interjection of disgust.

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  • adverb UK, India, South Africa Yes.
  • noun UK, informal An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.

Etymologies

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An alternative pronunciation, akin to yeah.

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From the pronunciation of “yes” which such people use.

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  • Hay in reverse.

    November 2, 2007

  • Still—and it was a close call—Jackson preferred the summer population to the yahs and hooray Henrys of term time. Was it just the envy of the underclass?
    Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 162.

    May 30, 2016