Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a lower- and middle-class segment of the white population of New Orleans.
- noun The variety of English spoken by these people, derived from Irish English.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
gate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun a unique collection of dialects of English spoken in New Orleans, Louisiana
- proper noun a person of the New Orleans, Louisiana area who speaks with a Yat accent.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This poem vividly expressive, fresh flow, time to clear gas Yat is God.
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This poem vividly expressive, fresh flow, time to clear gas Yat is God.
Think Progress » McConnell Tries To Dodge Repeated Questions About His Wall Street Fundraising 2010
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Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China.
George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Zach Adams: a Yat is a semi-derogatory/semi-self embraced term for native New Orleaneans, who have a somewhat brooklyn sounding accent.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #137 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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There's a splendid rock, and the Yat is the rock, as well as the village.
Set in Silver 1901
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Owners of the Japanese tavern Kayabukiya, just north of Tokyo, employs a pair of Japanese monkeys called Yat-chan and Fuku-chan to serve their customers.
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Tokyo employs a pair of Japanese monkeys called Yat-chan and Fuku-chan to serve their customers.
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Mayor Robert Maestri, who spoke English in what is locally know as a "Yat" accent ( "Where y'at, baby" is the common greeting) commented to Roosevelt "How you like dem erstas?"
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss 2010
alexz commented on the word Yat
The language of New Orleans.
"The Yat Language of New Orleans" by Ray Cantanella http://books.google.ca/books?id=epd4SBAvxXMC
March 9, 2013