2011年9月2日 · In the Neapolitan dialect "guaglione" (pronounced guahl-YO-nay) signified a young man. The chiefly unlettered immigrants shortened that to guahl-YO, which they pronounced whal-YO. That was inevitably further shortened to yo. The common greeting among young Italian-American males was "Hey, whal-YO!", and then simply, "Yo!" And so it remains today.

2017年4月25日 · Yo (interjection) : A greeting or said to get someone's attention; hey: Yo, dudes and babes! - [1859+; even though yo and yoho are very old utterances, found by 1420, the recent revival of yo as a primarily black interjection has spawned comment; Ernest Paolino of Philadelphia, indignant because a New York writer had claimed the syllable for New York, recalls it from the 1930s as shortening of ...

A note on 'word is bond' With regard to Smitherman's comment that "yo word is yo bond" is "an old familiar saying in the Black Oral Tradition," that familiarity may be due to the fact that the same essential idea has been a proverb in English since at least 1500. From Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006): A man's word is his bond.

2015年1月4日 · The Five Percent Nation may have popularized "Yo word is yo bond" at some point after 1964, but the same idea appears in many nineteenth-century texts. The earliest instance in a Google Books search appears in Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, volume 34 (1811) [combined snippets]: The Honest Man. He looks not to what he might do, but what he should do.

2016年1月5日 · Yo, man, them boys is Hot... This record is Hot. Yo, man, them boys is Cold... This record is Cold. The word is an expression in this context(it can also define a persons style), however it can also refer to drugs. The third sense of the word is related to using drugs but originally meant a stupid person; then applied to the drug addicts.

Based on Google Ngram, the word, ‘yo mama’ and its counterpart, ‘yo papa’ came into use in circ 1935 and their currency started to show a sharp rise from around 2000. Although none of Cambridge, Oxford, and Merriam-Webster English dictionary registers the word, either ‘yo mama,’ or ‘yo momma,’ Wikipedia defines it as the ...

2014年8月23日 · In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a letter, or group of letters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. Historically these letters were "elevated terminals", that is to say the last few letters of the full word denoting the ordinal form of the number displayed as a superscript.

2013年9月6日 · A person capable of seeing a situation from multiple perspectives might be referred to as schizophrenic, using the word in its slang sense “Behaving as if one has more than one personality”. However, this is not necessarily a “better way to get this point across” vs phrases like “able to look at the big picture from various viewpoints ...

2013年12月3日 · I need the word like in the context of a game. There are different characters e.g. a saint, a criminal, ... . But tenacious doesn't fit. You'd have to say a tenacious person. And that's not one word. –

2016年6月30日 · In one word, "duty", as mentioned already in another answer, but there is an expression that perfectly fits your scenario, it is imported from French but used this way (in French) in English: Noblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". It denotes the concept that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and ...