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[yai] Example Sentences Origin

yeah

[yai]
adverb Informal.

Origin:
1900–05; variant of yea or yes
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Yeah is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
Example Sentences
  • And I thought, yeah, there's a first for everything.
  • Oh, yeah, it's true.
  • Well, yeah, I've worked my whole life.
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yeah (jɛə)
 
sentence substitute
an informal word for yes

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Word Origin & History

yeah
Amer.Eng., colloquial, 1905, from drawling pronunciation of yes.
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yeah definition

[ˈjæə] or [ˈjæɔ]
  1. interj.
    yes. LEFTY: You okay? BRUNO: Yeah. LEFTY: Yeah? BRUNO: Yeah! I said yeah! Did you hear me say yeah? :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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