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yage

or ya·je

[ yah-hey ]

noun

  1. a mildly hallucinogenic drug obtained from a South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yage1

First recorded in 1920–25; from Latin American Spanish (Colombia, Equador) yagé, apparently from an Indigenous language of southeastern Colombia or northeastern Peru

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Example Sentences

In th' old days all ye knew about a ship was that she left Liverpool and landed in New York afther a most disthressin' v'yage.

If you was at the tiller you'd run into the fust port you come to, and there wouldn't be no v'yage at all.'

He was mate aboard the schooner when Uncle Abner died on a v'yage from Charleston home.

There's a couple of hundred launched every year and not more'n ten ever make a payin' v'yage.

That's the way you used to poke fun at me aboard the old Wild Ranger when we was makin' port after a good v'yage.

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