The phrase "a yay" is not standard in written English and may be considered informal or colloquial.
It can be used in casual contexts to express excitement or approval, often in response to something positive.
Example: "When I heard I got the job, I couldn't help but shout, 'A yay!'"
Alternatives: "Hooray!" or "Yay!".
Now, he is considering creating a "Yay Area's Finest" Web site and selling T-shirts with the slogan, "Yeah, You Saw Me on YouTube".
Industry minister Ian Macfarlane was asked about the prospect this morning on ABC radio but did not give a yay or nay.
Facebook also decided not to introduce a yay response with a smiling face and rosy cheeks, he said, because users did not understand it during testing.
They fill in the emotional gaps that real-life bridesmaids sometimes leave — listening to complaints about a fiancé, giving opinions on tablecloth colors, sharing a "yay" when the perfect floral arrangement is found.
Research published last week claims that within the first 12 minutes of a date, each person will have judged the other on their eye contact, smile, tone of voice and body odour, and already decided if it's a yay or a nay.
It wasn't a yay moment for the story line, but it was a yay moment for me as an actress.
"Aaaah-yeeeeeaaaah-a-hey-a-YAY," she sings, as is her wont.
I was mortally offended, and when my little brother, 2 1/2, asked for a "yay-yay," his way of pronouncing potato, I wanted to rub his face in it.
Judith Schaffner, 65 in a week — "yay medicare" — a retired librarian, New York When did you get here?
A man with a bandanna throwing a bouquet of flowers instead of a Molotov (yay for peace)!
A man with a bandana throwing a bouquet of flowers instead of a Molotov (yay for peace)!
