yas'm

intj

Etymology

yas + -'m, a contraction of ma'am (itself a contraction of madam).

Definitions

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yes'm.

    • “Oh, yas'm. I seed him. I seed him,” and Uncle Billy floundered for a moment, caught in his own trap.
    • “Yas'm, this is our Jeremiah. Three months old.” “Congratulations, Martha. He looks a fine, healthy boy.” “Yas'm, that he is.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yas'm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA