If you're more interested in the origins of the second half of that saying, check out this article from Slate. Let's break it down. The yip part of yippee is old. It originated in the 15th century and meant "to cheep, as a young bird," according to the Oxford English Dictionary OED. The more well-known meaning , to emit a high-pitched bark, came about around , as per the OED, and gained the figurative meaning "to shout; to complain. Yip is imitative in origin but probably also influenced by the 16th century yelp , which has an even older meaning of "boasting, vainglorious speaking.
The yips are "nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf. Google has been lying about the penalty against this site for years. My conversation with the Google employee who told me about the penalty starts dropping August Yippee ki-yay , we're gonna watch a movie!
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Yip is imitative in origin but probably also influenced by the 16th century yelp, which has an even older meaning of "boasting, vainglorious speaking.
The yips are "nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf. However, we found a citation from "The match consumed three hours and thirty minutes, most of it because Cobb, the tingling-nerved old baseball Tiger, got the 'yips' on many greens and would step back and line up his putts several times per putt.
Yippee came about after yip. The earliest record of this exclamation of delight is from in Sinclair Lewis's novel, Main Street: "She galloped down a block and as she jumped from a curb across a welter of slush, she gave a student 'Yippee! Yippie with an -ie refers to "a member of a group of politically radical hippies, active especially during the late s. Now how about the whole phrase, yippee-ki-yay?
Do cowboys really say this? We're guessing probably not, unless of course they're single-handedly and shoelessly defeating a gang of bank robbers on Christmas Eve. So that's some explanation as to its origin. It's worth pointing out though that Bruce Willis had this to say in an interview with Ryan Seacrest about the phrase:. I was just trying to crack up the crew and I never thought it was going to be allowed to stay in the film.
The phrase "Yippee yi yo ki yay" is from the theme song of an extremely popular TV cartoon in the s Quick-draw McGraw. You have to be an old fart like me, or Bruce Willis, to get this! Yippie ki yay is an exclamation of joy that was popularly used by US cowboys in the mid 19th century. Actually it's a mispronounced version of the greek word "epieikeia" which means gentle or peace.
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