yayo

• yeyo, yay

From Spanish llello.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeɪ.oʊ/

yayo (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) cocaine
   • 1983, Deborah Harry and Giorgio Moroder (lyrics), “Rush, Rush”, in Scarface, Universal Music Publishing Group, performed by Debbie Harry:

     Rush-rush to the yayo; buzz-buzz give me yayo.

   • 2004, Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz (Jonathan Mortimer Smith), "Grand Finale" (rap song)

     We yayo experts, we been whippin' the yola / Since the crackas decided to take the coke from Coca-Cola.

   • 2009, Christine A. Nandi, The ABC's of Raising a Successful Student (page 7)

     They just spend their time sniffing up the yayo.

• See also Thesaurus:cocaine.

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yayo m (plural yayos)

1. grandpa

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “yayo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From yaya. Compare Spanish yayo.

yayo

1. (often humorous) a male nanny; a manny

yayo

1. (often humorous) to work or act as a manny

Unknown origin, perhaps from whimsical slang by youth. A prevailing theory, given the term's ultimate origin in Aragon and Catalan-speaking territories, is derivation from Catalan jajo (“grandpa”). It seems the first form generated was *jaja (“grandma”), from which the masculine form was derived. This would come from Catalan avia (“grandmother”) (from Latin avia), and from juvenile palatalization would generate something like *ai̯a. The common phenomenon of syllabic repetition in children's language (cf. papa, baba, etc.) would then cause the form jaja above, which would then be spread into Spanish and masculinized.

Otherwise, perhaps masculinized from Greek γιαγιά (giagiá, “grandmother”).

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Syllabification: ya‧yo

yayo m (plural yayos)

1. (chiefly Spain, Catalonia, informal) grandpa, pops

• yaya

• “yayo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Spanish yayo (“grandpa”). Compare Catalan iaio and Cebuano yayo.

yayo (feminine yaya)

1. (often humorous) a male nanny; a manny