soyjak

English

A soyjak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Chinese 醬油／酱油 (jiàngyóu)obor.

Japanese 醤油

Japanese そやbor.

Dutch sojabor.

English soy

Proto-West Germanic *bōjō

Old English *bōia

Middle English boye

English boy

English soy boyblend.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas

Proto-Slavic *vojь

Proto-Slavic *-akъ

Proto-Slavic *vojakъ

Polish wojakbor.

English Wojakblend.

English soyjak

From the Internet meme soyjak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with an excited expression. Blend of soy boy +‎ wojak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɪ.dʒæk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɪ.(j)æk/, /-(j)ɑːk/ (copying Polish)

• Audio (US):

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Noun

soyjak (plural soyjaks)

1. (Internet) An online image of an emasculate man, often with an excited expression, with an art style based upon the original wojak.
2. (Internet slang, derogatory) Synonym of soy boy.

Verb

soyjak (third-person singular simple present soyjaks, present participle soyjaking or soyjakking, simple past and past participle soyjaked or soyjakked)

1. (Internet slang, intransitive, sometimes derogatory) To gape like the man in the image; to be excited or surprised.
   • 2023 July 27, @aatracoes, Twitter‎^[1]:

     finally found my screenshot of this. i did the closest thing i've ever done to soyjaking when she said this line

   • 2023 November 1, @ScottMGreer, Twitter‎^[2]:

     Conservatives are outraged by this, but if the police came to his place for tearing down missing Israeli posters, they would be soyjaking. A good reminder that speech restrictions primarily hurt the Right

   • 2024 May 20, @Trey_Explainer, Twitter‎^[3]:

     My phone made one of those random compilation videos and I literally soyjaked at this one bit because I genuinely don’t remember ever looking this beautiful