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(Yup, philia sounds a bit like Philadelphia, a.k.a., the city of brotherly love, for a reason, Beaulieu notes.) The word dates back to the seventh or eighth century B.C.E. and is a “generic term ...
Yup is a slang word for yes, see Yes and no. Yup may also refer to: YUP (band), a Finnish rock band "Yup" (song), a 2015 song by Easton Corbin; Yukpa language (ISO 639:yup), spoken in Venezuela and Colombia; An abbreviation for Yellowdog Updater; Yale University Press; Young Urban Professional (see Yuppie
Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas. Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", [1] [2] is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. [3]
A Yes man is a sycophant; an obsequious assistant or enabler. Yes Man or Yes Men may refer to: Books. Yes Man, a semi-autobiographical novel by Danny Wallace ...
The use of the apostrophe in the name Yup'ik is a written convention to denote the long pronunciation of the p sound; but it is spoken the same in other Yupik languages. Of all the Alaska Native languages, Central Alaskan Yup'ik has the most speakers, with about 10,000 of a total Yup'ik population of 21,000 still speaking the language. The five ...
Yupʼik (plural Yupiit) comes from the Yupik word yuk meaning "person" plus the post-base -pik meaning "real" or "genuine". Thus, it literally means "real people." [10] The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the Yupʼik people or their language as Yuk or Yuit.
Yas (/ j ɑː s /), sometimes spelled yass, is a playful or non-serious slang term equivalent to the excited or celebratory use of the interjection yes. Yas was added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2017 and defined as a form of exclamation "expressing great pleasure or excitement". [1]
From a Taino compound word ("Jiba" meaning mountain or forest, and "iro" meaning man or men) [19] though commonly mistaken for originating from the Arabic (Mofarite Arabic: جبري , romanized: Jabre), in the Mofarite related Ethiopian Semitic languages ገበሬ, romanized: Gabre). jumeta Drunk [3] Cold cherry limber lambeojo