yowzah
UK/ˈjaʊ.zə/
yowzah is the pronunciation spelling of yes.
Meaning of yes
Particle
yes
- Used to show agreement or acceptance.
- Yes, you are correct.
- Used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.
- It was not my fault we lost the race.
Oh, yes, it was!
- It was not my fault we lost the race.
- Answer to a question presuming one answer when all answers are correct.
- Do you like cake, or pie?
Yes.
- Do you like cake, or pie?
Interjection
- Wow: an indication of surprise, excitement, or amazement.
- Smart, snappy, swagger - packed with plenty of pepper for the youth that "knows all the answers." HOT! Yowzah! Just slip into a pair of these slacks and put yourself into circulation.1933, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 56
- A tall young man with big blue eyes walked by in a tank top undershirt. He was in great shape.
“Yowzah!” Spike said, watching him pass.2003, Robert B. Parker, chapter 22, in Shrink Rap
- Synonyms:
- wow
Synonyms of yowzah
Questions about yowzah
- What does yowzah mean?
- Yowzah means wow: an indication of surprise, excitement, or amazement.
- What is yowzah the pronunciation spelling of?
- Yowzah is the pronunciation spelling of yes.
- What part of speech is yowzah?
- Yowzah is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce yowzah?
- Yowzah is pronounced /ˈjaʊ.zə/ (UK).
Words near yowzah in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yowzah (page history and authors); yes (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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