![]() ![]() Scooby-Doo classically features "Zoinks!" as an interjection (not as the 3d pers. I was using it more than ten years ago in both noun and verb forms in reference to books that I wanted to read so much I would grab them off the bookstore or library shelf on sight. I don’t *think* it’s from Scooby-Doo, although it’s possible. I was coming in here to cite “yoink” also. I have no idea whatsoever what "yeet" means: young people seem to be using in various ways. Someone in a future century will probably conclude that that comes from the "address as ye instead of thou" meaning, with a gap in the attestations. I recently heard it with the meaning "dump (one's romantic partner)". ![]() Should you be interested, Jeff Bezos will sell you a t-shirt proclaiming "THE LORD YEETETH AND THE LORD YOINKETH AWAY." ĭecember 30, 2:39 That's funny and very cross-generational. I think my wife has tried to add it to her active lexicon to facilitate communication with the seven-year-old, but I have not thus far attempted to do so. This is a word several of my children seem to use. I'm a little surprised since yeet was very high-profile around that time, earning it a nomination for ADS WOTY (albeit with a perplexing gloss which didn't really catch the vibe even back then). Filed by Mark Liberman under Words words words.Their model reveals a series of close encounters before one star (not always the initial outsider) is yeeted into the great beyond and can even incorporate factors such as tides that have previously usually been discarded as too complex. It's long been understood interactions between the stars usually cause one's ejection, but Ginat and Perets present the probabilities under different distances between the two closer stars. Where they exist they're usually temporary arrangements, unless one star is so much more massive the others behave like planets. Single stars like the Sun are rare, but triple systems are rarer still. Most of the galaxy's stars are in binary pairs. To demonstrate the power of the process, Ginat modeled systems of three stars to see how likely it was that one would be ejected, the stellar equivalent of stepping into the void. Even solar systems - Stephen Luntz, " The Famous Three-Body Problem Has A Drunken Solution", IFL Science : Update - apparently these days, everybody yeets. Wikitionary does have a relevant entry, glossed "To throw an object a long distance or with a sudden or forceful motion", with quotations going back to 2018 - including another Brady appearance:īrady gladly participated and yeeted (maybe the past tense of yeet, meaning to throw, is "yote"?) a football through Damon's window. The OED entry also references the verb thowt, glossed as "To address (a person) with the pronoun thou", and cited to the same 15th-century source(s):ġ440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. Meanwhile, Miriam-Webster has no entry for yeet, and the OED registers it as a transitive verb meaning "To address (a person) by the pronoun ye instead of thou", with 1.5 15th-century citations:ġ440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. “I did get warned from the NFL about that so… I won’t throw another Surface.” Brady said.Īs far as I can tell, Brady didn't use the word yeet himself, though I confess that I didn't listen to every second of the relevant 37-minute podcast. Should the seven-time Super Bowl champion throw the tablet again, he will be fined. Now, per Brady on his Let’s Go podcast that aired Monday, the NFL is not going to let the Surface abuse continue. On the Sunday Night Football stage, December 19th, Tom Brady and the Buccaneers were swept for the second consecutive regular season against the Saints - a frustrating shut-out loss that had Brady spiking a poor Microsoft Surface tablet on the sideline. I didn't learn this from the not-very-reliable Urban Dictionary, but from Umar Shakir, " Tom Brady says the next sideline Surface he yeets will cost him: Microsoft’s star tablet may finally be safe on the sideline", The Verge : Today I learned that yeet means (among other things) "To discard an item at a high velocity". ![]()
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