": to talk persistently or volubly and often loudly":[
"caused the purists to yammer for censorship",
"\u2014 D. W. Maurer"
],
": to utter persistent complaints : whine":[],
": to utter repeated cries of distress or sorrow":[],
": whimper":[]
},
"examples":[
"customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Abandoned on my own private Exile Island without a recap in which to yammer on endlessly about trivial matters that are of no real importance whatsoever. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Only in a minority of cases did one partner want to yammer on whereas the other wished to cut things off. \u2014 Cathleen O\u2019grady, Science | AAAS , 1 Mar. 2021",
"Where are all the hanging geraniums",
"There was already enough finger-pointing, yammering about bad people doing bad things. \u2014 Gary Thompson, Philly.com , 29 Mar. 2018",
"The North Koreans had largely let the South Koreans do the talking until Bolton started yammering on about Libya. \u2014 Sean Illing, Vox , 24 May 2018",
"The president yammered about several topics, including his ties to Michael Cohen, Robert Mueller\u2019s Russia investigation, and Kanye West\u2019s recent pro-Trump tweets. \u2014 Laura Bradley, HWD , 27 Apr. 2018",
"In other words, the event all those Y2K conspiracy theorists were yammering about 18 years ago has finally happened, and we're all doomed. \u2014 Christopher Rosa, Glamour , 8 Feb. 2018",
"There was still a really strong turnout, but on the periphery, people were yammering and there was a steady flow of people exiting throughout. \u2014 Robert Morast, Houston Chronicle , 18 Dec. 2017"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle English yameren , alteration of yomeren to murmur, be sad, from Old English g\u0113omrian ; akin to Old High German j\u0101maron to be sad":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ya-m\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"inveigh",
"keen",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"maunder",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174906",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"yamp":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": either of two western North American plants of the genus Carum ( C. gairdneri and C. kelloggii ) with fleshy edible roots":[
"\u2014 see indian potato",
"\u2014 compare caraway"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8yamp"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"of Shoshonean origin; akin to Shoshoni yampa yamp, Ute yamp\u00e4":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025331"
},
"Yamoussoukro":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"town in central C\u00f4te d'Ivoire population 207,500":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccy\u00e4-m\u0259-\u02c8s\u00fc-kr\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044443"
},
"yam bean":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a tropical twining plant ( Pachyrhizus erosus ) with tuberous roots resembling turnips which are eaten raw as a salad or cooked and edible pods and seeds which yield rotenone and oils":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050718"
},
"Yamato-e":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a classical style of Japanese painting marked by shallow spatial illusion, bold colors, surface patterning, and stylized forms":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"y\u00e4\u02c8m\u00e4t\u0259\u02ccw\u0101"
],
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"examples":[],
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"Japanese Yamato-e , from Yamato Japan + e picture, painting":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054039"
},
"yam":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a moist usually orange-fleshed sweet potato":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8yam"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Glucomannan is a water-soluble fiber from the elephant yam plant. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
"And, near Costa Rica, additional tubers, such as cassava and taro roots, are added aside from the yam . \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022",
"The stews are served with rice except for egusi, which is served with fufu, or pounded yam . \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Located in a Salt Lake City area strip mall, this market sells ingredients for favorite African and Caribbean meals, from fresh yam tubers and bitter leaves to dehydrated cod and smoked shrimp. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Feb. 2022",
"At the East Bay\u2019s new Cafe 86, nearly everything is flavored with ube, the Filipino purple yam . \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Southern growers adopted the word yam to distinguish their crop from the paler Northern variety. \u2014 Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Cousins Travis and Ryan Croxton of the Rappahannock Oyster Co. make this feisty yam dish a regular part of their Thanksgiving feast. \u2014 Travis And Ryan Croxton, Country Living , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Calbee\u2019s first product was caramel, made from mixed grains and Japanese yam starch. \u2014 Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times , 5 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"earlier iname , from Portuguese inhame & Spanish \u00f1ame , of African origin; akin to Fulani nyami to eat":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1657, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103152"
},
"Yampa":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"river 250 miles (400 kilometers) long in northwestern Colorado flowing west into the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8yam-p\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154000"
},
"yampee":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": cush-cush":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8yamp\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from yampee yamp":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173108"
},
"Yamel":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Kalapooian people of the Yamhill river valley, northwestern Oregon":[],
": a member of the Yamel people":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8yam-",
"\u02c8y\u00e4m\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173723"
},
"Yamato":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Japanese of the principal racial stock of Japan that is of ancient origin, has possibly Alpine characteristics, and is supposed to have entered Japan from the mainland in the protohistoric period \u2014 compare ainu":[]
