yeyo

English

Noun

yeyo (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of yayo
   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 501:

     I just say lemon, or yeyo, or weasel dust or big C, or just fucking cocaine.

Spanish

Etymology

Dialectal variant of desmayo (“faint, swoon”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeʝo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeʝo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeʃo/ [ˈʃe.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeʒo/ [ˈʒe.ʒo]

• Rhymes: -eʝo
• Syllabification: ye‧yo

Noun

yeyo m (plural yeyos)

1. (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, slang) dizziness

Further reading

• “yeyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10