different between yeet vs yee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

Originating and coined in the mid-2000s, but popularized by a 2014 video uploaded on Vine.

Interjection

yeet

1. (informal, slang, humorous) Used to express excitement or approval.

Noun

yeet (plural yeets)

1. (Internet) A type of dance with flailing arm motions, popularized by social media website Vine.

Verb

yeet (third-person singular simple present yeets, present participle yeeting, simple past yeeted or yote, past participle yeeted or yeeten or yought)

1. To move quickly.
2. To throw an object a long distance or with a sudden or forceful motion.

Usage notes

Conjugation of this recent neologism has not been completely determined.

Etymology 2

From Middle English yeten, ?eten, from Middle English ye, ?e (“ye”). Compare Middle English thouten.

Alternative forms

• yait
• yoit

Verb

yeet (third-person singular simple present yeets, present participle yeeting, simple past and past participle yeeted)

1. (obsolete) To ye (address with the pronoun "ye").

Anagrams

• eyet, tyee, yete

Scots

Adverb

yeet

1. yet

Conjunction

yeet

1. yet

English

Alternative forms

• ye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji/

Pronoun

yee (personal pronoun)

1. (archaic and Tyneside) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye
2. obsolete emphatic of ye
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V

     Speak yee who best can tell, ye sons of light,
     Angels, for yee behold him, and with songs
     And choral symphonies, Day without Night,
     Circle his Throne, rejoycing, yee in Heav'n,
     On Earth joyn all yee Creatures to extoll.

Interjection

yee

1. (slang) yes

Anagrams

• Eye, eye

Luganda

Adverb

yee

1. yes

Antonyms

• aaa

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 152.

Middle English

Pronoun

yee

1. Alternative form of ye (“you”)

Navajo

Postposition

yee

1. with, by means of, by means of it

Yola

Particle

yee

1. yes

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN