yeti
yeti: n. = Abominable Snowman. [Tibetan]
york
york: v.tr. Cricket bowl with a yorker. [back-form. f. YORKER]
yourself
yourself: pron. (pl. yourselves.
1 a emphat. form of YOU. b refl. form of YOU.
2 in your normal state of body or mind (are quite yourself again). be yourself act in your normal, unconstrained manner. how's yourself? sl. how are you? (esp. after answering a similar enquiry).
yarmulke
yarmulke: n. (also yarmulka) a skullcap worn by Jewish men. [Yiddish]
yon
yon: adj., adv., & pron. literary & dial. --adj. & adv. yonder. --pron. yonder person or thing. [OE geon]
yawn
yawn: v. & n. --v.
1 intr. (as a reflex) open the mouth wide and inhale esp. when sleepy or bored.
2 intr. (of a chasm etc.) gape, be wide open.
3 tr. utter or say with a yawn. --n.
1 an act of yawning.
2 colloq. a boring or tedious idea, activity, etc. yawner n. yawningly adv. [OE ginian, geonian]
yahoo
yahoo: n. a coarse bestial person. [name of an imaginary race of brutish creatures in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]
yuck
yuck: int. & n. (also yuk) sl. --int. an expression of strong distaste or disgust. --n. something messy or repellent. [imit.]
|
