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Merriam-Websters word of the year.
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"...because it blends whimsy and new technology."
Next year's word would be a toss up between fire and wheel except those words are still popular so they're disqualified.
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Languagehat posted about woot, and so did Grant Barrett.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Kind sir, could you explain to me what the word "yawpish" means? So that I might understand what is so special about the word "wOOt-woot"? ( Except that it is an exclamation of happiness, which might be special enough. )
OneLook does not acknowledge the word. Neither does Urban.
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There's a verb, to yawp 'to cry, bark', which is a variant of to yelp. As with many verbs, this, too, has been nominalized (nouned if you'd rather). From there, it is a short hop-skip to adjectival derivation by use of the suffix -ish. That's all conjecture, and tsuwm has suggested elsewhere that it might mean 'noisy, clamorous'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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There's a verb, to yawp 'to cry, bark', which is a variant of to yelp. As with many verbs, this, too, has been nominalized (nouned if you'd rather). From there, it is a short hop-skip to adjectival derivation by use of the suffix -ish. That's all conjecture, and tsuwm has suggested elsewhere that it might mean 'noisy, clamorous'. The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me--he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855
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Look up w00t with zeroes in UrbanDictionary - 33 definitions go on for pages - or you can link to it from the front page today.
Walt Whitman circa 1891 "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."
One might also count the all important "YOP!" from Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who" as a yawp.
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I use w00t frequently. aloud.
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...maybe my yawp isn't loud enough
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