different between yeet vs yote

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ??otan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutan? (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

1. (Britain dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
2. (archaic or dialectal) To steep.

   My fowls, which well enough / I, as before, found feeding at their trough / Their yoted wheat. — Chapman.

Related terms

• ingot

Etymology 2

From coyote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/, /?j??ti/
• Rhymes: -??t, -??ti

Noun

yote (plural yotes)

1. Abbreviation of coyote.

Anagrams

• Toye, eyot, toey

Swahili

Adjective

yote

1. Mi class inflected form of -ote.
2. Ma class inflected form of -ote.
3. N class inflected form of -ote (singular only).