Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gap yah

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English

Syllables: gap yah
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

British usage; Humorous; Slang

Example Sentences

"I was at university in Paris for three months and I missed my friends desperately. I'd gone away without them on my gap yah but being in the Caribbean alone was fun, and people there were friendly and made me feel safe."
"I pushed a strawberry sweet into my mouth, bagged up the afternoon's rubbish and thought about what my gap-yah girl would be called, what her favourite colour was, her favourite food."
"The sneers about my gap yah. The eye-rolling whenever I mentioned Exeter. Full of posh pricks, you said once. I thought I wasn't cool enough for you."

Etymology

From stereotypical pronunciation by the privileged upper class. Compare yah (“an upper-class person”). Gap Yah was the name of a comedy sketch of this kind, published on YouTube in February 2010.

Usage

British usage
Humorous
Slang

Inflected Forms

gap yahs (plural)

Questions

What does gap yah mean?: A gap year.
Where does gap yah come from?: From stereotypical pronunciation by the privileged upper class. Compare yah (“an upper-class person”). Gap Yah was the name of a comedy sketch of this kind, published on YouTube in February 2010.

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