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m'yes

m'yes particle: yes.

Particle

m'yes

  1. (informal) Yes.
    • “Getting on my nerves, it is, all this chopping and changing; never know where you are from one day to another. ‘Study!’—M’yes! What do they study anyhow? Never leave a scrap of paper out, and everything locked up as tight as whiskey in a cook’s bed-room.” […] “But I suspect the young feller thinks...1922, Ronald MacDonald, The Green Handkerchief, London: Cecil Palmer […], →OCLC, pages 35, 150, and 259–260
    • Mr. Burdon had evidently prepared himself badly for his viva voce examination. Looking over his answer before he came to the Assembly he probably had said to himself: “Supplementary question: M’yes. What is a rattan cane?’[’] Having fortified himself with the answer to that question he overlooked...1925 February 27, “The Railway Budget. Presentation in Both Houses.”, in The Pioneer Mail and Indian Weekly News, volume LII, number 9, Allahabad: The Pioneer and Civil & Military Gazette, →OCLC...

Origin of m'yes

Nasalized variant of yes. Compare m'kay.

Questions about m'yes

What does m'yes mean?
M'yes means yes.
What part of speech is m'yes?
M'yes is a particle.

Words near m'yes in the dictionary

  1. M'sian
  2. M'sians
  3. m'sieur
  4. m'sieurs
  5. m'sorry
  6. m'yes
  7. m'zuzah
  8. m*lk
  9. m*lks
  10. m*therfucker
  11. m*therfuckers

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