"yampee" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: yampee

Filed under: English, Trinidad & Tobago

Part of speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: U trying to tell me that some sweaty, pimple-faced jackass with snat running down dey nose, yampee in dey eyes and headflakes all over dey clothes will have a chance with u?!

Article or document title:
“ever been talking too a hot guy and…” (URL)

Author:
“Hook”

(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)

Article, document, publication, web site:
UrlUnknown

Date of publication:
Apr. 18, 2004

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