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yiish

yiish is the alternative form of yeesh.

Meaning of yeesh

Interjection

  1. Expressing exasperation or impatience.
    • You ask..yeesh do we have to teach you EVERYTHING??1999 Feb 3, 3:00 am, Jenn, The Theory of being loved, alt.romance
  2. Expressing relief; phew, whew.
    • "I guess that explains why they don't fly very well." Gina shuddered. "And I almost made it crash! Yeesh!" "Yeesh is right," agreed Jay.2003, Jeanette Cottrell, There's No Such Thing!
  3. Expressing disgust; yuck, yech.
    • And so, if your mother says, "Yeesh!" every time somebody mentions broiled liver...2005, Eugene B Bergmann, Excelsior, you fathead!: the art and enigma of Jean Shepherd

Adjective capitalized: Yiish

Yiish (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Yi language family of Sino-Tibetan languages.
    • ...maps of the following groups: Kam Tai, Miao-Yao, Tibeto-Burman including Yiish, Mongol languages, Turkic languages, and Man-Tungus languages.1985, Asien - Issues 14-17, page 84
    • It deals with syntactic change on a scale comparable to that presupposed by the ST articulation -- and in much the same directions -- that has taken place in a group of languages known in Chana as the "Yi" and in the West as the "Lolo", that form one of the major groupings in the Loloish (or...1985, Graham Thurgood, James A. Matisoff, Paul K. Benedict, Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area
    Synonyms:
    Loloish

Synonyms of yiish

Origin of yiish

From Yi + -ish.

Questions about yiish

What does yiish mean?
Yiish means of or relating to the Yi language family of Sino-Tibetan languages.
What is yiish the alternative form of?
Yiish is the alternative form of yeesh.
What part of speech is yiish?
Yiish is an adjective.

Words near yiish in the dictionary

  1. YIGBY
  2. yigh
  3. Yigo
  4. YIHAT
  5. Yihewani
  6. yiish
  7. Yijiang
  8. Yijun
  9. yike
  10. yiked
  11. yikers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yiish (page history and authors); Yiish (page history and authors); yeesh (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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