| 释义 |
yas yas, n. U.S. slang (chiefly in the language of blues music). Now rare.
Brit. |ˈjɑːs jɑːs|, U.S. |ˈjɑs ˈjɑs|
Forms: also reduplicated further.
[Euphemistic alteration of ass n.2, with reduplication. Compare ya-yas n.]
= ass n.2 1a.
one's yas yas: one's self or person; cf. one's ass at ass n.2 2.
1929‘Tampa Red’ Duck Yas-yas-yas in M. Taft Talkin' to Myself (2005) 588 She stooped over to pick some grass And the same thing struck her in the yas yas yas. 1938‘Blind Boy Fuller’ Get your Yas Yas Out in S. Grossman Masters Country Blues Guitar 50 Now you got to leave my house this morning, don't I'll throw your yas yas out o' door. 1973Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 86 369 ‘Yas-yas’, a common black childhood term for ass, was used extensively as a euphemism, instantly recognized in the ghetto but innocuous to the white censors' ears. 1980P. Guralnick Nighthawk Blues (2003) 69 They thought it wasn't nice, you know, to be singing them nasty type of songs and shaking their yas-yas-yas in front of all them peoples. |