yeyo

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English

Noun

yeyo (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of yayo
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 501:
  I just say lemon, or yeyo, or weasel dust or big C, or just fucking cocaine.

Spanish

Etymology

Dialectal variant of desmayo (“faint, swoon”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeʝo/
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeʃo/
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeʒo/

Rhymes: -eʝo
Syllabification: ye‧yo

Noun

yeyo m (plural yeyos)

(Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, slang) dizziness

Further reading

“yeyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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