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Definitions
Wiktionary
- interj. Yes; an expression of affirmation.
Examples
“One character is portrayed with only the Maine accent but you didn't pepper the rest of the book with more than an occasional "ayuh" thereby avoiding a major peeve of mine - the Faux Highland Brogue Syndrome.”
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary
“I have family in Central Maine and they still say wicked and ayuh, so not just downeastahs!”
“Finally, the guys at Wicked Decent Learning, have been a little swamped this week with teaching (their real jobs), power outages (ayuh, been to Jay, Maine), and general having a life stuff so they're a little behind in production.”
“And, ayuh, we throw our fair share of western Maine shenanigans into the mix, too.”
“Posted November 26, 2006 at 1:04 pm | Permalink yep, she does have that whole “Ilsa, She Wolf of the Mayflower Compact” motif going there, ayuh.”
“Twitter photos love-notes e-mail design hosted ayuh, let's jog!”
“The first line of 13 and the last line of 14 are very terse: Kalasya vihitam, as explained by the Commentator, is ayuh pramanam, na prapnami is na janami.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
“Kepada jentera petugas, ayuh perkemas dan tingkatkanlah usaha demi menggarap agenda perubahan!”
“Gajinya RM120 sebulan "murah" ya Pak ..?? masih membutuhi khidmat saya Pak ..? ayuh Pak ...! cepat hubungi Agen saya”
“Off to one side, in the middle of the burned spot at the bottom, is another stone, reading: Idiot should’ve applied brakes, ayuh.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ayuh’.
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The Language of Stephen King
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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words I use in Maine
...less often elsewhere.
beanhole, wicked, mémère, kennebec, tourtière, ayuh, from away, summer people, coffee brandy, back road, chamois, buy local and 7 more...
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jessicat's Words
moxibustion, galactorrhea, gallimaufry, spatula, sparkle, moxie, ayuh, craptacular, schmuck, thwack, crepuscular
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New Englandisms that are wicked awesome
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ayuh.
hober Sometimes ayup. Oct 24, 2008
kraduate Positive affirmation common in pahts of New England. Oct 15, 2008