different between yeap vs yea

English

Etymology

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Adverb

yeap (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of yep
   • 2003, Rick W. White, Comes Like a Raging Fire

     I told her, "Yeap. I'm here on vacation." We both smiled, as she told me, "Me too."

   • 2009, Terri Lee Ryan, Life Is One Big To-Do List: A Woman's Life After 40

     Yeap, I'm coming back in my next life as a daughter of one of my friends. I would never have to worry about looking ugly.

Anagrams

• PAYE, Paye, Peay

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ye, ?ea, ya, ?a, from Old English ??a, i? (“yea, yes”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *y? (“already”). Cognate with Scots yea, ya (“yes, yea, indeed, so”), Saterland Frisian ja, jee (“yes”), West Frisian ja (“yes”), Dutch ja (“yes”), German ja (“yes, yea”), Swedish ja, jo (“yes, well, indeed”), Icelandic já (“yes”), Latin iam (“now, already”), Italian già (“now, already”), Spanish ya (“now, already”), Polish ju? (“already”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: yay

Adverb

yea (not comparable)

1. (dated) Yes, indeed.
   • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

2. Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture).

   The pony was yea high.

Synonyms

• (yes): aye, yep, yes, yup, yeah, yigh (when contradicting)

Antonyms

• nay
• no

Conjunction

yea

1. (archaic) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
   • • (with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
   • c. 1633, The Flea, by John Donne

     O stay, three lives in one flea spare,

     Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

Interjection

yea

1. (in some dialects of American English, including Southern, Western, and African American Vernacular) Yeah, right, yes.

Noun

yea (plural yeas)

1. An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken

   Antonym: nay

Etymology 2

From yeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?(?)/, /?jæ.?/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

yea

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of yeah

Etymology 3

See yay.

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/

Interjection

yea

1. Misspelling of yay.

Anagrams

• Aye, aye, yae