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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of yes.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English gēse, so be it! : probably gēa, so; see i- in Indo-European roots + sīe, may it be so; see es- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The problem with the Democratic Party is they were yessing Obama.”
“I was already yessing and encouraging him before he got to the part where he paused and started with: “Do you think …””
“I'll leave the yessing to Molly; but, only if that works with one on-and-offee Leopolly.”
“But they want to get it so bad sometimes, they start just yessing you or giving you a million reasons why they're doing it wrong.”
“Therefore, for one, it's completely unjustified to take what is essentially the democratic expression tool of the society and turn it into a complicated tekkie and geeky "bug" report on JIRA, which is terribly offputting and that may have been the idea and it's also completely nuts to force this yessing and plussing in this Orwelling double-plus good nonsense.”
Second Life's infrastructure issues prompt an open letter to Linden Lab
“When I tried to make a proposal that there should be "no" votes too, not just this endless fake happy positive "yessing" and "crowdwisdoming" bleh, I was told that it "wasn't possible on JIRA itself" and I had to write to JIRA.”
Second Life's infrastructure issues prompt an open letter to Linden Lab
“I started jumping around, "whooing" and "yess-yessing!" and then he tied a whole bunch of foot holds into the extension cord, and climbed it like a ladder onto the roof, where he then entered the house through his bedroom doors which lead onto the rooftop patio that he just climbed on to.”
“She was just such an idiot, and she knew everyone was just yessing her to death because they had to, so she developed this weird aggression to cover it up.”
“This one was young, smooth like a doe, and he could be her buck deer, yessing He blinked his eyes open and stared through the windshield into the night.”
Greenmantle
“By that time His Loftiness the Ambassador is in the galley busily cooking for the prisoners and is being assisted by a disconcerted bunch of yessing pen-pushers. ”
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
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