Meaning of m'yes | Babel Free

Definitions

Yes.

informal

Examples

““Getting on my nerves, it is, all this chopping and changing; never know⟳ where you are from one day to another. ‘Study⟳!’—M’yes! What do they study⟳ anyhow? Never leave⟳ a scrap of paper out, and everything locked up as tight as whiskey in a cook’s bed-room.” […] “But I suspect⟳ the young feller thinks I admire his step-mother.” / “I hope⟳ he’s sure of it, Valliper,” grunted Yardlip. “He’d certainly knock⟳ your head off, if he suspected you didn’t.” / “M’yes?” murmured the Academician. “Well, he’s not far wrong. And indeed, my dear Yardlip, that charming woman ought to marry⟳ again.” […] Vansittart called from below: “Hullo, up there! Ghost hunting?” / “M’yes!” replied Stanislas, with what Stinchcombe thought a strange intonation. “But Sir Harley’s looking for Christabel, to say⟳ good-bye. He’s off to town after all.””

“Mr. Burdon had evidently prepared himself badly for his viva voce examination. Looking over his answer⟳ before he came to the Assembly he probably had said to himself: “Supplementary question⟳: M’yes. What is a rattan cane?’[’] Having fortified himself with the answer⟳ to that question⟳ he overlooked the word “menial,” and in response to Mr. Gaya Prasad Singh he had to admit⟳ that he did not even know⟳ its derivation: really these Government members are very careless.”

“Wilbur (exaggerating English accent). Take⟳ a chair, Mr. —er—— Jodie. Nuthall. (Sitting down.) Wilbur. Nuthall . . . m’yes. Nice day, what? Jodie. How much rain⟳ makes me a fine day in Old England? Wilbur. M’yes. What do you think⟳ of Old England, eh?”

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