YKWYKD
(chat) you know what you can do

YMMV
(chat) your mileage may vary

YR
(chat) your

YTLKIN2ME?

• YTLKIN2ME

(chat) You talking to me?

YWIA
(chat) you're welcome in advance

YYSSW
(chat) yeah, yeah, sure, sure, whatever

YYSW

• YSW

(SMS) yeah yeah sure whatever


Yankee

• Yank
• yankee
• yank

1. An American.
Synonyms: Yank, Yankee-Doodle
2. A resident of the northern United States of America (especially during the American Civil War). Synonyms: Yank, Northerner 3. An American who lives in New England; a native or inhabitant of New England. Synonyms: New Englander, Yank 4. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
5. The Yankees baseball team.
6. A type of bet.
7. The letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Examples:
1) Best known of all national nicknames perhaps is Yankee.
2) They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements...and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England. (Henry David Thoreau, "Walden")
Etymology, more definitions:
Yet the origin of this famous name for Americans is a mystery. Scholars once thought it came from Yengees, which was supposed to be the way the American Indians pronounced the word English, or its French equivalent, Anglais. Another theory is it derives from Dutch Janke, diminutive of Jan (John), or Jan Kees, for "John Cheese", a nickname for English settlers bestowed by the Dutch in the early days of New York City. "Janke" is not only a nickname, but also a surname. In New Netherland, the 17th-century Dutch settlement stretching up the Hudson Valley from New Amsterdam (New York) to Beverwijck (Albany), "Janke", alongside "Jan", "Janneke", "Jankin", and several other variants, was a common surname. After the British ousted the Dutch administration in 1664, Dutch families began to spell their names with Y- instead of J- in English-speaking contexts. Even today, families spelling their name "Yanke" are found in the Hudson Valley alongside others using the more traditional spelling "Janke". This was used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times.
The phrase was probably popularized by the English in the song "Yankee Doodle Dandee" to describe New Yorkers, and perhaps, all (Northern) Americans in the colonies.
Others - that is, speakers from outside of the USA - often use it to refer to any resident of the USA (as opposed to American in general), especially in the form Yank. The words are sometimes spelt with a lowercase initial, "yankee" and "yank", and may be used in a disapproving sense.
In sum, the phrase probably originated in old New Amsterdam, New Holland and New York, in the Mid-Atlantic. It then was adopted by the British to describe (Northern) colonists. In the Civil War, the phrase referred to all residents and soldiers of northern or free states, usually used derisively by rebel troops and secession sympathizers. The "Yankees" baseball team refocussed attention on New York, and the need to describe the rural, New Englander of puritan stock probably caused reporters and authors to bring back the slang shorthand term of Yankee. Finally, citizens of other countries, including the British during the World Wars, referred to all Americans as Yanks.
Hence, the term has had different positive, negative, contextual and regional associations over the years, as books, media, troops, teams, and peoples have used it differently for different purposes.
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
]To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
(An old definition)



You can't teach an old dog new tricks

• You cannot teach an old dog new tricks
• One can't teach an old dog new tricks
• One cannot teach an old dog new tricks
• teach an old dog new tricks
• can
• teach
• old
• dog
• new
• trick

People use this saying to mean that as you get older you get more set in your ways. Once you get used to doing something in a certain way, it becomes very hard to learn a different way to do it.
Example:
"Grandfather, why are you going this way to the market? Why don't you take the new road?" asked Mei Jing.
"Oh," laughed her grandfather, "I always forget that new road because I've gone this way all my life. I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks."

You got me stumped

• Smb. got smb. stumped
• get smb. stumped
• got stumped
• get stumped
• got
• stumped
• get
• stump

I can't possibly figure out the answer to your question.
Examples:
1. Bill: How long is the Amazon River?
Jane: You've got me stumped.
2. Bob: Do you know of a book that would interest a retired sea captain?
Sally: You've got me stumped.

You took the words right out of my mouth

• take the words right out of one's mouth
• Smb. took the words right out of one's mouth
• take
• word
• right
• out of
• mouth
• out

You said exactly what I meant to say before I had a chance to say it, and, therefore, I agree with you very much.
Examples:
1. Bill: I think she's old enough to know better.
Tom: You took the words right out of my mouth.
2. Mary: This movie is going to put me to sleep.
Jane (yawning): You took the words right out of my mouth.

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(SMS) why


yadda yadda yadda

• yadda
• blah blah blah
• blah

And so forth; on and on (usually refers to something that is a minor detail or boring and repetitive).
Examples:
1) Our history teacher told us about the Civil War, the shoelace tax of 1876, the election of 1880, yadda yadda yadda. 2) Jenna told me every single detail about her trip - how big her room was, where she sat on the plane, yadda yadda yadda.
Etymology:
This phrase comes from Yiddish, and became popular in the 1990's after it was featured on the popular TV show "Seinfeld".
Synonym: blah blah blah


yaffle

• rain bird
• rain
• bird
• hickwall
• wickwall
• woodwall
• yuccle
• eccle
• ickwell
• green woodpecker
• green
• woodpecker
• hewhole
• highhoe
• popinjay
• yaffil
• yaffler
• yaffingale
• yappingale
• yackel
• woodhack
• yafful

1. (local or dialect) English name for the green woodpecker.
Example:
There are several yaffle domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks.
History, synonyms:
Late 18th century. An imitation of the birds call.
Readers familiar with the cult BBC children's television series "Bagpuss" will know of Professor Yaffle, who is indeed a woodpecker. What brought it to mind was spotting one of these handsome birds in the garden, assiduously searching the edge of the lawn for ants. On the rare occasions one sees rather than hears a green woodpecker - with its green back, yellow rump and a crimson head that flashes in the sunlight as it turns its long bill - it seems too exotic to be a native British bird. Mostly, the signal that one is nearby is its characteristic laughing call, which provoked this odd name for the bird, "laughing bird". Other names for it, now rare, include "rain bird" (because its cry was said to bring wet weather), "hickwall", "wickwall", "woodwall", and "yuccle", though these have turned up in so many forms in various British dialects, such as "eccle" or "ickwell", that their links are sometimes hard to detect. While we're sure "yaffle" is imitative, the other names are much harder to pin down; the Oxford English Dictionary hazards a guess that they, too, might be imitative, but they're so old that they have been transformed out of recognition.
More synonyms:
hewhole, highhoe, popinjay, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, woodhack.
2. Yelp of a dog.
3. (slang, dialect) Somebody who was eating greedily; voracious eating.
4. (local, dialect) A handful; an armful
Also: yafful
Etymology:
This is from another English dialect word, spelled "yafful" in the English Dialect Dictionary.


yahoo

• Yahoo!

[YAH-hoo]
1. A boorish, crass, or stupid person; a brute in human form.
2. Yahoo! - a) Internet media company which offers an online navigational guide to the Web; b) Yippee!; Oh yeah! (expression of joy or excitement).
3. Yahoo - member of a brutish people from Swift's story "Gulliver's Travels"
Examples:
1) The local teenagers' reputation as a bunch of yahoos was belied by their courteous treatment of the stranded motorists.
2) Now weve got more new features to show you on Yahoo! Video Search.
3) A soldier is a Yahoo who works for his King and country. (J.Swift, "Gulliver's Travels")
History:
We know exactly how old "yahoo" is because its debut in print also marked its entrance into the English language as a whole. "Yahoo" began life as a made-up word invented by Jonathan Swift in his book "Gulliver's Travels", which was published in 1726. The Yahoos were a race of brutes, with the form and vices of humans, encountered by Gulliver in his fourth and final voyage. They represented Swift's view of mankind at its lowest. It is not surprising, then, that "yahoo" came to be applied to any actual human who was particularly unpleasant or unintelligent. Yahoos were controlled by the intelligent and virtuous Houyhnhnms, a word which apparently did not catch people's fancy as "yahoo" did.


yap
1. To talk aimlessly.
Example:
There he goes again, yapping away at the dinner table.
2. Mouth.
Example:
Shut your yap! We're sick of your boring comments!
Etymology:
'Yap' is the sound a dog or other small animal makes. When someone talks too much, he can sound like a barking dog.

yawner
1. One who yawns.
2. Something that is boring or completely uninteresting.
Example:
The film was a real yawner - I fell asleep after the first twenty minutes.
Etymology:
A 'yawn' (when you open your mouth, take a deep breath, and stretch your muscles) is a sure sign that you are sleepy or bored.


yawp
[YAWP]
1. To make a raucous noise.
Synonym: squawk
2. Clamor, complain; raucous noise, squawk..
Example:
Bob was unpopular with the office supervisors because he was always yawping loudly about his working conditions.
Etymology:
"Yawp" first appeared sometime in the 14th century. This verb comes from the Middle English "yolpen," most likely itself derived from the past participle of "yelpen," meaning "to boast, call out, or yelp." Interestingly, "yawp" retains much of the meaning of "yelpen," in that it implies a type of complaining which often has a yelping or squawking quality. An element of foolishness, in addition to the noisiness, is often implied as well. The noun "yawp" arrived on the scene approximately 500 years after the verb. It was greatly popularized by "Song of Myself," a poem by Walt Whitman containing the line "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."


ycdbwycid
(SMS) you can't do business when your computer is down


yeasty
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling yeast.
2. Not yet settled or formed; immature or incomplete.
3. Marked by agitation or change.
4. Frothy or trivial; frivolous.
5. Full of vitality; exuberant.
Examples:
1) Aunt Mari had the basket open and was taking out freshly baked rolls, which had been carefully wrapped in a tea towel. The yeasty smell of them and of fried chicken made Eve realize how hungry she was. (Mary Balog, "Slightly Married")
2) "We are living in the time of the parenthesis, a great and yeasty time," he concluded. "Make uncertainty your friend." (Bill Sweetman, "A yeasty time", Interavia Business & Technology, July 1, 2001)
3) In that yeasty time in the mid-sixties when I went to work as a reporter in Paris, the world was about to pop. (Raymond Sokolov, "Why We Eat What We Eat")
4) I see you bubbling all over the place - you're yeasty, and I think it's grand! (Joan Anderson, "A Year by the Sea")
Etymology:
"Yeasty" is from "yeast", from Middle English "yeest", from Old English "gist".


yegg

• yeggmen
• yeggman

[YEG]
Safecracker; robber.
Example:
[Her] attorney does admit that his client had developed 'platonic' relationships with two cons, a couple of yeggs named Ollie and Marvin, but only to gather information. ("Fort Collins Coloradoan", December 6, 2002)
History, more examples, related words:
"Safecracker" first appeared in print in English around 1825, but English speakers evidently felt that they needed a more colorful word for this rather colorful profession. No one is quite sure where "yegg" came from. It first appeared in the "New York Evening Post" on June 23, 1903, in an article about "the prompt breaking up of the organized gangs of professional beggars and yeggs." By 1905, it had acquired the variant "yeggmen," which was printed in the "New York Times" in reference to unsavory characters captured in the Bowery District. "Yegg" has always been, and continues to be, less common than "safecracker," but it still turns up once in a while.


yellow
A person who is scared easily; a cowardly individual; lacking courage, afraid to defend.
Examples:
1) Chris didn't surprise me when he ran away from the war zone - I always knew he was yellow.
2) Some fans think he's yellow because he doesn't fight.
Synonym: chicken


yen
[YEN]
1. A strong desire or propensity; longing.
2. Urge, craving.
Example:
"I feel a sudden yen for chocolate ice cream," said Norton as he turned the car into the parking lot of the roadside ice cream stand.
History:
Although "yen" suggests no more than a strong longing these days, at one time someone with a yen was in deep trouble indeed. The first meaning of "yen" was an intense craving for opium. The late 19th-century English term evolved from the Cantonese "yin-yahn," which itself combines "yin," meaning "opium," and "yahn," meaning "craving." In English, the Chinese syllables were transformed to "yen-yen" and ultimately abbreviated to simply "yen." Eventually, "yen" was generalized to the more innocuous meaning of "a strong desire," and the link to drug cravings was lost.


yestersol
Meaning and etymology:
The Martian day is some 39 minutes longer than ours, and has been officially named the "sol" (the Latin for sun, which is also the official astronomical name for our star). NASA Workers on the various Mars spacecraft projects have coined "yestersol" ("yester" + "sol") for the sol before the current one.


yorkipoo

• labradoodle
• cockapoo
• goldendoodle
• schnoodle
• maltipoo
• bichonpoo
• peekapoo
• volcano
• cross-bred dog
• cross-bred
• crossbred dog
• crossbred
• dog

A term for a cross between a poodle and a Yorkshire terrier.
Example:
The Yorkipoo has a silky and soft non-shedding coat.
History, related words:
The word appeared in a newspaper item about cross-bred dogs being the latest fashion accessory for film stars. There are a number of these designer, cross-bred dogs around, most based on the poodle. The oldest is the "labradoodle", a cross between a poodle and a labrador, created in Australia in the 1980s as a breed suitable for owners with allergies. Other breeds include "cockapoo" (poodle crossed with cocker spaniel), "goldendoodle" (poodle and golden retriever), "schnoodle" (poodle and schnauzer), "maltipoo" (poodle and Maltese terrier), "bichonpoo" (poodle and Bichon Frise), and even the terminally twee "peekapoo" (poodle and pekinese). One that doesn't involve the poodle is the "volcano", a cross between a boxer and a doberman, no doubt well named.


you can lead a horse to water

• but you can't make it drink
• one can lead a horse to water
• but he can't make it drink
• smb. can lead a horse to water
• but he can't make it drink
• can
• lead
• horse
• water
• make
• drink
• you can lead a horse to water
• but you cannot make it drink
• one can lead a horse to water
• but he cannot make it drink
• smb. can lead a horse to water
• but he cannot make it drink

This saying means that you can show people what you want them to do, but you cannot force them to do it.
Example:
Vera disliked bowling. All of her friends insisted that she come with them to the bowling alley, though, because they needed an extra person on their team. "I really don't like this game," Vera thought to herself. When it was her turn to bowl, she crossed her arms over her chest and said, "Just because you got me to come with you doesn't mean I'm going to play. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink!"

your heart in your mouth

• one's heart in his mouth
• one's heart in one's mouth
• have your heart in your mouth
• have one's heart in his mouth
• have one's heart in one's mouth
• heart
• mouth

To be extremely frightened about something.
Example:
My heart was in my mouth when I reached the top of the roller coaster.
Etymology:
Homer used this expression thousands of years ago in his famous epic poem the "Iliad". When you are terrified, your heart starts pounding violently and there's a choking feeling in your throat. Homer referred to that feeling as having "your heart in your mouth". For centuries that's the way many people have described the feeling of extreme terror or dread.

ysyd
(SMS) yeah, sure you do


yuppie

• yuppy

A young person who works in business, makes lots of money, and buys luxury items; often used in a derogatory way.
Examples:
1) Tom is a classic yuppie - he has an expensive car, an expensive apartment, and an expensive wife. 2) That used to be a cool neighborhood, but now it's filled with yuppies.
Etymology:
Comes from the first letters of the phrase "Young Urban Professional".


ywsyls
(SMS) you win some, you lose some


yyy
(chat, Internet) anything that occurs between kissing and snoring