yknow

English

Contraction

yknow

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of y'know; (informal) Shortened alternative form of you know; shortened alternative form of do you know what I'm saying.
   • 2002, Shane MacGowan, Victoria Mary Clarke, A Drink with Shane MacGowan‎^[1], →ISBN, page 114:

     Apart from his horrible English face, he looked like a Paddy, y'know.

   • 2010, Duane G Watson, Michael Wagner, Edward Gibson, “The role of syntactc structure in guiding prodsy perception”, in Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody‎^[2], →ISBN, page 1153:

     [...] so some of those people kind of get push aside and so yknow as you can see I'm standing on m^[sic] soapbox here [...]

   • 2019, Falconi, Elizabeth and Graber, Kathryn, “The Heritage Narratives of Yiddish Community Members”, in Storytelling as Narrative Practice: Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell‎^[3], →ISBN, page 111:

     It was the fifites yknow.