“yippee ki yay” or “yippie yi yo kayah”
Posted: October 6, 2018 Filed under: Clothing, Entertainment, Fashion, Shoes | Tags: BDSM, Cowgirl, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, fashion, Leather, Life, Lucky Brand, Presentation Outfits, Shopping, Slave, snakeskin, submissive 13 Commentsdievca got distracted by these two videos and the phrases
after buying a pair of cowboy boots and jeans jacket dress/coat.
But where does the yippee-ki-yay part come from?
The yip part of yippee is old. It originated in the 15th century and meant “to cheep, as a young bird,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The more well-known meaning, to emit a high-pitched bark, came about around 1907, as per the OED, and gained the figurative meaning “to shout; to complain.”
Yip is imitative in origin but probably also influenced by the 16th century yelp, which has an even older meaning of “boasting, vainglorious speaking.” Yawp is even older, coming about in the 14th century, but now is primarily associated with Walt Whitman’s late 19th century “barbaric yawp.”
Yippee came about after yip. The earliest record of this exclamation of delight is from 1920 in Sinclair Lewis’s novel, Main Street: “She galloped down a block and as she jumped from a curb across a welter of slush, she gave a student ‘Yippee!'” (Ummm, by-the-way, Yippee beans are amphetamines.)
Yippie with an -ie refers to “a member of a group of politically radical hippies, active especially during the late 1960s.” The word, which originated in 1968, stands for Youth International Party and was modeled after hippie. (Good to know…dievca’s been spelling it wrong all these years~)
Now how about the phrase, yippee-ki-yay? It seems to be a play on “yippie yi yo kayah,” the chorus from the 1930’s Bing Crosby song, “I’m An Old Cowhand” (video above)
Were you still wondering what caused this Cowboy moment?
Western Wear is “in” and dievca has these upcycled boots:
After 5+ years, she’s ready to upgrade her Cowboy Yippee:
Lucky Brand Trucker Dress, on sale for $83Β
Star Cowboy Boots,Β handmade in blue….
Thank you to Angela Tung of The Week.
Rope βEm cowboy!
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Rope ‘Me cowboy! XO
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I like those upcycled boots!
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Thank you! They have been great — and I’ll use them, but I was looking for an update.
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I dunno…. cool is cool. π
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Umm, I updated with red….red snakeskin….on sale. Cross fingers they fit.
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It is amazing where phrases come from, we were dicussing tonight at dinner with friends phrases that we all thought were standard colloquialisms but each had a variation on the theme, similar but actually very different. Goes to show where family sayings come into the mix messing up out tracking of language. Wonderful post diveca π
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Thank you — another place for some of the fun is when you are singing and have no clue what the lyrics are, but you are having a heck of a good time with whatever you are saying. AC/DC seems to have some of those lyrics that are misunderstood (but you don’t care because the car radio is turned up really loud!)
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I found out recently I song I really enjoy singing I had been singing the wrong word in one place that changed the meaning totally for me! I felt very silly! π
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Not silly — just having a great deal of fun and the word didn’t really matter!
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Another place where Yippe Yay Yay Yo appears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJyhZ-3Z8A8
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Oh! I haven’t listened to Basement Jaxx in ages! Thanks for the reminder π
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You are very welcome! I use them as a flashback leap-off point for a music service.
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