单词 | yada yada |
释义 | yada yadaint.n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A. int. Indicating (usually dismissively) that further details are predictable or evident from what has preceded: ‘and so on’, ‘blah blah blah’. ΚΠ a1967 L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 182 They're no good, the lot of them—‘Yaddeyahdah’—They're animals! 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Jan. b1 I'm talking country codes, asbestos firewalls, yada yada yada. 1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life i. 9 I get this weird rash so I finally go to the doctor who gives me this big lecture on AIDS—yada yada yada—then says the rash..won't kill me. 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Apr. 49/4 Moody is forcing a heap of very tired metaphors down your throat—as the nuclear family fissions, so does the nuclear reactor, yadda yadda yadda. 2005 Arena May 109/1 Best actor of his generation, blah blah blah... Brilliant architect of the ‘method’ performance, yada, yada. B. n. Trivial, meaningless, or uninteresting talk or writing; chatter. Cf. blah n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun] flash1605 sniffling1653 canting1659 cant1710 galbanum1764 gas1793 blarney1796 gammon1805 slum1812 claptrap1819 flam1825 glittering generality1849 bull's wool1850 eyewash1857 bunkum1862 hot air1873 kid1874 fustian1880 flubdub1888 bull1914 oil1917 blah1918 drip1919 piss and wind1922 banana-oil1927 flannel1927 crud1943 old talk1956 ole talk1964 okey-doke1969 yada yada1991 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 144/2 This yatta-yatta is, of course, an evasion, and one that has..sparked endless speculation in Los Angeles about their relationship. 1998 Report on Business Mag. Aug. 13/3 More pedestrian entries would be included, of course: the ‘yada yada yada’ of Asian flu, recent musings of Alan Greenspan, fluctuations in the Lombard rate. 2005 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 20 Mar. (Herald-Times ed.) f5/5 The EULA, or ‘End-User License Agreement’, is the yadda yadda yadda that you agree to when you install software on your computer. It's usually pages and pages of stuff that no one reads. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < int.n.a1967 |
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