yay1
/jeɪ
/exclamation informal
Expressing triumph, approval, or encouragement: Yay! Great, Julie!...
- We went back to the JXC and worked on our ethics essay and I ended up finalising it and printed it out. Yay!
- I'm going out tonight, I have a movie thing tomorrow, I have a party next week… yay!
- More books that have been on my list for absolutely ages, yay!
Origin
1960s: perhaps an alteration of yeah.
yay2
/jeɪ/(also yea)
adverb North American informal
1(With adjectives of measure) to this extent; so: I knew him when he was yay big...
- You're probably used to seeing the American armadillo, sometimes called the midget armadillo, which only grows to be about yay big.
1.1To a considerable degree; much: yay later
Origin
1960s: probably a variant of yea1.
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