yahadv.n.²

Brit.

/jɑː/, U.S.

/jɑ/

Forms: 1800s yha (Scottish), 1800s– ya, 1800s– yaa (Scottish), 1800s– yah, 1900s– yar.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly a borrowing from German. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: yea adv.; yeah adv.; German ja; Dutch ja.

Etymology: In early (chiefly U.S.) use partly representing a regional or colloquial pronunciation of yea adv., and partly < German ja and its cognate Dutch ja (see yea adv. and compare yaw adv.). In later British use representing a regional (chiefly northern and north midland), affected, or (specifically English) upper-class and upper-middle-class pronunciation of yea adv. or yeah adv. Compare earlier yaw adv.

A. adv.

Yes.In early use frequently in representations of German, Dutch, or Afrikaner speech (cf. yaw adv., ja adv.). Later representing English regional (northern and north midland) usage. In Britain from the 1980s onwards particularly associated with upper-class or upper-middle-class English speech (cf. OK yah int.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assent > [adverb] > expression of assent > in representations of non-native speech

yaw1600

yas1776

yah1833

yair1903

1833 Baltimore Gaz. & Daily Advertiser 20 Dec. An account which he heard..of the decision of a Dutch Judge, in some one of the villages along the Hudson... The Judge..replied with great complacency, O yah! every man hat a right, by the law, in dis free Republic, to drink for himself.

1848 ‘S. Lacklustre’ Wanderings of Body & Mind 16 A German with large eyes and a smattering of many languages—a fat slow ‘ditto’ who listened and said, yah! ..constituted our division of the vehicle.

1863 A. J. Munby Diary 20 Aug. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 170 ‘Dus Jaan Brahn work here?’ ‘Yah!’ said some of the maidens: ‘Aye!’ said others [Lancashire].

1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 71 ‘Yah! yah! hold a light,’ put in one of the Boers.

1899 Daily News 5 Apr. 5/1 ‘Yah’, which the rustics of the Peak frequently use for ‘Yes’, and which they employed exclusively thirty years ago.

1905 Daily News 23 May 4/7 America..has two substitutes for ‘yes.’ One of them is ‘yep’ and the other is ‘yah’.

1969 A. Lurie Real People (1978) 77 Oh, yah, Cezanne's a good painter, but good painting isn't everything.

1982 Times 22 Apr. 14/1 You pop down Knightsbridge way and listen to the upper crust, and they're doing exactly the same..a series of Yah and What, Ha and Oh.

1986 Sunday Tel. 9 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 23/1 ‘Can I tempt you with a crouton?’ ‘Yar, absolutely.’

1992 S. Birdsell Chrome Suite ii. xv. 302 ‘Hank,’ I said, ‘I want to talk to you.’ ‘Yah?’ he said, still concentrating intently on the inner workings of the alarm clock. ‘Shoot.’

1999 J. Poller Reach viii. 18 Yah, I agree. Hugo's biff.

B. n.²

Also with capital initial. British slang. A (usually young) English person who is conspicuously or unselfconsciously upper-class or upper-middle-class in speech.

ΚΠ

1985 Times 29 June 30/3 It is the story of a sheltered Yorkshire lad's confrontation with the Yahs.

1988 Guardian 2 Sept. 31/8 Although the ‘Yahs’ at Edinburgh and St Andrews may be able to rely on Daddy for financial security, many Scottish students are not so fortunate.

2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xiv. 381 I saw myself leaving the braying wannabes and half successful yahs of Fulham for somewhere I'd feel more at home.

2001 Independent 21 Sept. (Review section) 1/3 You were not a fully fledged yah if you did not live out of town, wear baggy jumpers and write off your Renault 5 after one Pimm's too many.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

yahint.¹n.¹

Brit.

/jɑː/, U.S.

/jɑ/

Forms: Also ya, yar.

Etymology: Echoic.

An exclamation of disgust, aversion, or malicious defiance. Also used loosely as a vague or meaningless exclamation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations

O?c1225

heyc1400

hoc1405

whoopc1450

oha1535

ooh1602

whowb1602

phew1613

hogmanay1692

ah1712

yo-hope1724

whew1751

whoo1763

yah1812

yo-heave-ho1813

yoicks1817

yo-he-ho1827

yo1830

boo1833

yoick1854

hot-cha-cha1932

ooh-la-la1952

ooh-ah1957

eina1971

eish2005

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations

oeOE

heya1225

ouc1300

we13..

hac1320

how1377

how now?c1380

vaha1382

ha a!c1386

ha ha!c1386

hoa1400

ohoa1400

yowc1440

yoa1475

heh1475

hey ho?c1475

huffc1485

wemaya1500

whewa1500

wow1513

huffa?1520

gup?1528

ist1540

whow1542

hougha1556

whoo1570

good-now1578

ooh1602

phew1604

highday1606

huh1608

whoo-whoop1611

sessaa1616

tara1672

hegh1723

hip1735

waugha1766

whoofa1766

jee1786

goody1796

yaw1797

hech1808

whoo-ee1811

whizz1812

yah1812

soh1815

sirs1816

how1817

quep1822

soho1825

ow1834

ouch1838

pfui1838

suz1844

shoo1845

yoop1847

upsadaisy1862

houp-la1870

hooch1871

nu1892

ouff1898

upsy1903

oo-er1909

ooh-wee1910

eina1913

oops1921

whoopsie1923

whoops-a-daisy1925

hot-cha-cha1929

upsadaisy1929

walla1929

hotcha1931

hi-de-ho1936

po po po1936

ho-de-ho1941

oh, oh1944

oopsy1956

chingas1984

bambi2007

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 33 While shout and scoff, Ya! ya! off! off! Like thunderbolt on Surya's eardrum fell.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxii. 149 ‘A very excellent lodger sir. I hope we may not lose him.’ ‘Yah!’ cried the dwarf. ‘Never thinking of anybody but yourself.’

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 164 He turned to bay..and bit the professor's finger till it bled. ‘Oh! ah! yah!’ cried he.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 183 ‘Yar!’..‘you little meddlesome wretch.’

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xi ‘What him mean? what him mean? Yah! yah!’

1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxxvi Gerrard, with a ‘yah!’ of repulsion, dropped the thing.

1890 G. A. Henty With Lee in Virginia 299 ‘Yah!’ the old man shouted. ‘Do you suppose we are going to give in to five men?’

Derivatives

yah v. (intransitive) to shout ‘yah!’Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)] > specific exclamations

ho1377

heave hoa1400

howc1450

whew1765

oh-oh1833

oh1837

yo-heave-ho1857

phew1858

ahem1876

oh-my1893

hooch1896

yah1904

ooh1930

ooh-la-la1950

ooh-ooh1960

1904 Sat. Rev. 23 Jan. 101 Yahing at Russia and cheering the ‘brave little Japs’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

yahint.²

Brit.

/jɑː/, U.S.

/jɑ/

Repeated, yah! yah!, denoting a perverted or affected pronunciation of ‘hear! hear!’.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > approval [interjection]

exactly1866

yah! yah!1886

good stuff1909

good (also nice) thinking1968

roots1974

shiok1977

big-up1993

1886 H. W. Lucy Diary Two Parl.: Gladstone 349 There are cheers of various kinds. There is Mr. Alderman Fowler's deep-chested ‘Yah, yah, yah!’

1887 Punch 21 Mar. 132/1 I used to call out Yah! yah! as I do in House of Commons.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

adv.n.²1833

int.¹n.¹1812

int.²1886

单词	yah
释义	yahadv.n.² Brit. /jɑː/, U.S. /jɑ/ Forms: 1800s yha (Scottish), 1800s– ya, 1800s– yaa (Scottish), 1800s– yah, 1900s– yar. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly a borrowing from German. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: yea adv.; yeah adv.; German ja; Dutch ja. Etymology: In early (chiefly U.S.) use partly representing a regional or colloquial pronunciation of yea adv., and partly < German ja and its cognate Dutch ja (see yea adv. and compare yaw adv.). In later British use representing a regional (chiefly northern and north midland), affected, or (specifically English) upper-class and upper-middle-class pronunciation of yea adv. or yeah adv. Compare earlier yaw adv. A. adv. Yes.In early use frequently in representations of German, Dutch, or Afrikaner speech (cf. yaw adv., ja adv.). Later representing English regional (northern and north midland) usage. In Britain from the 1980s onwards particularly associated with upper-class or upper-middle-class English speech (cf. OK yah int.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [adverb] > expression of assent > in representations of non-native speech yaw1600 yas1776 yah1833 yair1903 1833 Baltimore Gaz. & Daily Advertiser 20 Dec. An account which he heard..of the decision of a Dutch Judge, in some one of the villages along the Hudson... The Judge..replied with great complacency, O yah! every man hat a right, by the law, in dis free Republic, to drink for himself. 1848 ‘S. Lacklustre’ Wanderings of Body & Mind 16 A German with large eyes and a smattering of many languages—a fat slow ‘ditto’ who listened and said, yah! ..constituted our division of the vehicle. 1863 A. J. Munby Diary 20 Aug. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 170 ‘Dus Jaan Brahn work here?’ ‘Yah!’ said some of the maidens: ‘Aye!’ said others [Lancashire]. 1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 71 ‘Yah! yah! hold a light,’ put in one of the Boers. 1899 Daily News 5 Apr. 5/1 ‘Yah’, which the rustics of the Peak frequently use for ‘Yes’, and which they employed exclusively thirty years ago. 1905 Daily News 23 May 4/7 America..has two substitutes for ‘yes.’ One of them is ‘yep’ and the other is ‘yah’. 1969 A. Lurie Real People (1978) 77 Oh, yah, Cezanne's a good painter, but good painting isn't everything. 1982 Times 22 Apr. 14/1 You pop down Knightsbridge way and listen to the upper crust, and they're doing exactly the same..a series of Yah and What, Ha and Oh. 1986 Sunday Tel. 9 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 23/1 ‘Can I tempt you with a crouton?’ ‘Yar, absolutely.’ 1992 S. Birdsell Chrome Suite ii. xv. 302 ‘Hank,’ I said, ‘I want to talk to you.’ ‘Yah?’ he said, still concentrating intently on the inner workings of the alarm clock. ‘Shoot.’ 1999 J. Poller Reach viii. 18 Yah, I agree. Hugo's biff. B. n.² Also with capital initial. British slang. A (usually young) English person who is conspicuously or unselfconsciously upper-class or upper-middle-class in speech. ΚΠ 1985 Times 29 June 30/3 It is the story of a sheltered Yorkshire lad's confrontation with the Yahs. 1988 Guardian 2 Sept. 31/8 Although the ‘Yahs’ at Edinburgh and St Andrews may be able to rely on Daddy for financial security, many Scottish students are not so fortunate. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xiv. 381 I saw myself leaving the braying wannabes and half successful yahs of Fulham for somewhere I'd feel more at home. 2001 Independent 21 Sept. (Review section) 1/3 You were not a fully fledged yah if you did not live out of town, wear baggy jumpers and write off your Renault 5 after one Pimm's too many. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). yahint.¹n.¹ Brit. /jɑː/, U.S. /jɑ/ Forms: Also ya, yar. Etymology: Echoic. An exclamation of disgust, aversion, or malicious defiance. Also used loosely as a vague or meaningless exclamation. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations O?c1225 heyc1400 hoc1405 whoopc1450 oha1535 ooh1602 whowb1602 phew1613 hogmanay1692 ah1712 yo-hope1724 whew1751 whoo1763 yah1812 yo-heave-ho1813 yoicks1817 yo-he-ho1827 yo1830 boo1833 yoick1854 hot-cha-cha1932 ooh-la-la1952 ooh-ah1957 eina1971 eish2005 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations oeOE heya1225 ouc1300 we13.. hac1320 how1377 how now?c1380 vaha1382 ha a!c1386 ha ha!c1386 hoa1400 ohoa1400 yowc1440 yoa1475 heh1475 hey ho?c1475 huffc1485 wemaya1500 whewa1500 wow1513 huffa?1520 gup?1528 ist1540 whow1542 hougha1556 whoo1570 good-now1578 ooh1602 phew1604 highday1606 huh1608 whoo-whoop1611 sessaa1616 tara1672 hegh1723 hip1735 waugha1766 whoofa1766 jee1786 goody1796 yaw1797 hech1808 whoo-ee1811 whizz1812 yah1812 soh1815 sirs1816 how1817 quep1822 soho1825 ow1834 ouch1838 pfui1838 suz1844 shoo1845 yoop1847 upsadaisy1862 houp-la1870 hooch1871 nu1892 ouff1898 upsy1903 oo-er1909 ooh-wee1910 eina1913 oops1921 whoopsie1923 whoops-a-daisy1925 hot-cha-cha1929 upsadaisy1929 walla1929 hotcha1931 hi-de-ho1936 po po po1936 ho-de-ho1941 oh, oh1944 oopsy1956 chingas1984 bambi2007 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 33 While shout and scoff, Ya! ya! off! off! Like thunderbolt on Surya's eardrum fell. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxii. 149 ‘A very excellent lodger sir. I hope we may not lose him.’ ‘Yah!’ cried the dwarf. ‘Never thinking of anybody but yourself.’ 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 164 He turned to bay..and bit the professor's finger till it bled. ‘Oh! ah! yah!’ cried he. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 183 ‘Yar!’..‘you little meddlesome wretch.’ 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xi ‘What him mean? what him mean? Yah! yah!’ 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxxvi Gerrard, with a ‘yah!’ of repulsion, dropped the thing. 1890 G. A. Henty With Lee in Virginia 299 ‘Yah!’ the old man shouted. ‘Do you suppose we are going to give in to five men?’ Derivatives yah v. (intransitive) to shout ‘yah!’Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)] > specific exclamations ho1377 heave hoa1400 howc1450 whew1765 oh-oh1833 oh1837 yo-heave-ho1857 phew1858 ahem1876 oh-my1893 hooch1896 yah1904 ooh1930 ooh-la-la1950 ooh-ooh1960 1904 Sat. Rev. 23 Jan. 101 Yahing at Russia and cheering the ‘brave little Japs’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yahint.² Brit. /jɑː/, U.S. /jɑ/ Repeated, yah! yah!, denoting a perverted or affected pronunciation of ‘hear! hear!’. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > approval [interjection] exactly1866 yah! yah!1886 good stuff1909 good (also nice) thinking1968 roots1974 shiok1977 big-up1993 1886 H. W. Lucy Diary Two Parl.: Gladstone 349 There are cheers of various kinds. There is Mr. Alderman Fowler's deep-chested ‘Yah, yah, yah!’ 1887 Punch 21 Mar. 132/1 I used to call out Yah! yah! as I do in House of Commons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.n.²1833int.¹n.¹1812int.²1886
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yahadv.n.2

yahint.1n.1

Derivatives

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yahadv.n.²

yahint.¹n.¹

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