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ay, ay

ay, ay is the alternative form of aye aye.

Meaning of aye aye

Interjection (1)

  1. Response to ahoy if a commissioned officer is in the boat.
  2. I acknowledge and will comply.

Interjection (2)

  1. (regional) Used as a greeting or introduction, often expressing caution, surprise, or curiosity.
    • titus. Brutus, I heard the ſtrangeſt thing laſt week!-⁠-⁠- brutus. Aye, aye! What was it? Tell me.1779, Hugh Downman, act III, scene III, in Lucius Junius Brutus; or, The Expulsion of the Tarquins: An Historical Play, London: […] J[ohn] Wilkie, […] Fielding and Walker, […] G[eorge] Kearsley, […]...

Questions about ay, ay

What is ay, ay the alternative form of?
Ay, ay is the alternative form of aye aye.

Words near ay, ay in the dictionary

  1. ay ay ay
  2. ay me
  3. ay oop
  4. ay up
  5. ay up me duck
  6. ay, ay
  7. ay, chihuahua
  8. ay-green
  9. ay^
  10. aya
  11. Ayaan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ay, ay (page history and authors); aye aye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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