Meaning of yat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A unique collection of dialects of English spoken in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2. A person of the New Orleans, Louisiana area who speaks with a Yat accent.
3. The station code of Yau Tong in Hong Kong.
4. A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
5. Alternative spelling of yatt (“woman”).
   Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, alternative, slang
6. The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /ě/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).

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Examples

“[Chorus:Kano]:3 wheel-ups in a row, that means I'm a direct rudeboy. 2 2 yats of my own that means I'm a direct rudeboy.”

“Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.”

“One fat batty yat let me hold her baps. I let her hold the sack and that's tit for tat.”

“The most distinctive local variety is Yat, called by one observer 'the Cockney of New Orleans'.”

“Traces of New Orleans' old Yat dialect are still heard around town. Apart from city-specific expressions, Yat sounds an awful lot like the traditional Brooklyn accent, and it reflects the same Irish, Italian and German roots.”

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