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  • verb Present participle of yes.

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Examples

  • The problem with the Democratic Party is they were yessing Obama.

    Fear, frustration reign at the polls Sandhya Somashekhar 2010

  • The problem with the Democratic Party is they were yessing Obama.

    Qualified call for change reflects fatigue, frustration Sandhya Somashekhar 2010

  • I was already yessing and encouraging him before he got to the part where he paused and started with: “Do you think …”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • I was already yessing and encouraging him before he got to the part where he paused and started with: “Do you think …”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • I was already yessing and encouraging him before he got to the part where he paused and started with: “Do you think …”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • I'll leave the yessing to Molly; but, only if that works with one on-and-offee Leopolly.

    Good links ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

  • 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.

    Arts Extra: Reintroducing Ike 2007

  • 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.

    withkerth Diary Entry withkerth 2004

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