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yex

/jɛks/

yex verb: to hiccup.

Verb

yex (third-person singular simple present yexes, present participle yexing, simple past and past participle yexed)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To hiccup.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To belch or burp.

Noun

yex (plural yexes)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A hiccup.
    Synonyms:
    yexing

Synonyms of yex

Forms of yex

Verb
third-person singular presentyexes
present participleyexing
past participleyexed
pastyexed
alternative formyesk
Noun
pluralyexes

Origin of yex

From Middle English yexen, yixen, yesken, from Old English ġeocsian, ġiscian (“to hiccup”), from Proto-West Germanic *giskōn (“to yawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeys- (“gaping, cracked”). Cognate with Middle Low German gischen (“to sob, sigh”), Middle High German geschen, gischen (“to yawn, gape”).

From Middle English ȝeoxe, ȝoxe, from Old English ġeoxa, ġeocsa, ġihsa (“hiccup; sobbing”).

Words formed from yex

Words that rhyme with yex

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Questions about yex

What does yex mean?
Yex means to hiccup.
What part of speech is yex?
Yex can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce yex?
Yex is pronounced /jɛks/.
What is the past tense of yex?
The past tense of yex is yexed.

Words near yex in the dictionary

  1. Yewtreeing
  2. Yewtrees
  3. yewy
  4. yewzh
  5. yewzhes
  6. yex
  7. yexed
  8. yexes
  9. yexing
  10. yexings
  11. yey

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