yay
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I hadn't thought about it till it came out in the press, so yay, yay for me.
From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026
“The first one she was yay high and then six months later, she grew. We had to readjust all of our dolls.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
It’s saying, “Oh, yay, I get to flunk another math test this week,” when what you mean is that you are freaked out about your consistently terrible grades in math class.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
When Anapé Ta is pi Dee ad doo yay Itlao.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean
