NOAD defines yay as follows: yay (adv.) informal (with adjectives of measure) so; to this extent : I knew him when he was yay big. ORIGIN 1960s: probably a variant of the adverb yea. NOAD's entry for yea includes: used for emphasis, esp. to introduce a stronger or more accurate word than one just used : he was full, yea, crammed with anxieties.

2010年8月13日 · "Yay" means "about so much". As in, "I caught a fish yay big" or "I've know that girl since she was yay high". (In both examples, the word "yay" would be accompanied by a gesture with one or two hands to indicate the dimension being approximated.)

Consider "the gulf between rich and poor". The reader imagines it as <---yay---> big. Now they're invited to consider a chasmatic version of that gulf. Regardless of any absolute meanings, the reader will widen and/or deeper the imagined gulf and …

2017年11月19日 · I am looking for synonyms–the more ‘fanciful’ the better–of "not a fan" as in I'm not a fan of his, but give the man a break! The expression, “I'm not a fan of his/her” or “I'm no fan of ...

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2013年5月12日 · The sentence you give should be: "Haven't heard anything from you in a while." or "Haven't heard anything from you for a while."

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2011年5月9日 · Big can more often refer to nonmaterial elements: I have big doubts. Large is more quantifiable in material terms: I come from a large family of ten siblings. In formal writing (such as a letter used to apply for a job) one would use large (unless big is the idiomatic choice); I worked for a large company, not a big company. There's not a great ...

2011年6月16日 · You need to either use a negative verb ("cannot"), or use neither/nor.Using the two together, like what that editor did to your post in TeX, is incorrect.

2011年7月15日 · Big difference from my point of view is we're more likely to say the usage is gormless, where Americans might call it something like dorky. – FumbleFingers Commented Jan 21, 2012 at 15:04