yay-boo

English

Adjective

yay-boo (not comparable)

1. Involving both celebration and disapproval.
   • 1994, Louise Armstrong, Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics, page 5:

     […] a context in which actual thought (as opposed to a Superbowl passions, a yay - boo mind-set ) could occur.

   • 2005, Ellyn Satter, Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming, page 409:

     This is a yay-boo story. Concern about child weight issues has focused energy and interest on the school nutrition program. Yay! This concern often translates into retrained feeding. Boo!

   • 2019, Mark Hentemann, “Peter & Lois' Wedding”, in Family Guy, spoken by Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane):

     it was the decade of Viagra but also the decade of Lorena Bobbit, so it was a yay-boo period for penises.

   • 2020, Mary Schaefer, Up and Away - Back in the Day:

     Yes, dear readers, it's another of those yay/boo letters.