yaaa.

n.  a variation of “yeah.” 

<“Yaaa,” the voice said, “now you have to be a preacher, wise guy.”  —Flannery O’Connor, “An Afternoon in the Woods,” Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works.>

v.  shoo!

<Get out of here.  Get out.  Yaaa!  —Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.>

yaaa yaaa ya-ya-ya-ya yaaa yaaa.

n.  the chorus of Nelson Riddle’s “Lolita Ya Ya” song.

<He hears the music—Nelson Riddle’s “Lolita Ya Ya” theme, with its high-pitched chorus of mechanically speeded-up wordless vocalizers, Chipmunk music for the spiritually adrift—Yaaa yaaa, ya-ya-ya-ya yaaa yaaa.  —Geoffrey O’Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life.>

yaaaa.

inter.  a scream of pain, as in Mobile Guerrilla Force: With the Special Forces in War Zone D by James C. Donahue.


inter.  a vocalization upon waking up from a nightmare, as in East Along the Equator: A Journey Up the Congo and Into Zaire by Helen Winternitz.


interj.  a meaningless expression that has a cathartic effect on the person who yells it.

<Wildly excited, Tas threw back his head.  He opened his mouth and cried a loud “Yaaaa” that had absolutely no meaning but just felt good.  —Margaret Weis, Dragons of a Vanished Moon.>

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