What's the difference between hooray and yay?

Hooray


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He tweeted: "The Sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray" and linked to the Sun website in September.
  • (2) Hooray, no more queuing behind coffee freeloaders,” tweeted Beverley de Valmency.
  • (3) If a beach this stunning were 400 miles south, it’d be smeared in luxury apartment complexes, hooray Henrys and yachts and, thereby, ruined.
  • (4) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (5) There's a craft beer truck (a huge hooray from my husband) that is romantically called Captured By Porches .
  • (6) So, hooray for the private sector, riding to the rescue, when the NHS couldn't help.
  • (7) A complaint was lodged with the Greater London authority after the mayor of London tweeted: " The Sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray " and linked to the Sun website in September.
  • (8) To be honest, turning 40 was much like when I turned 30, though I felt a bit more grown-up (meaning I drank fizzy wine and said, "No thanks", as opposed to "Hooray", when a stranger tried to shove an unidentified pill into my mouth).
  • (9) I'm saying "Hooray" because he has recognised that the only way to save America is to confront it.
  • (10) It’s also the first week this year I’ve spotted wrist hankies – hooray!
  • (11) That’s my judgment.” Again, the prospect of stock market meltdown is swatted away: “I don’t think that follows at all … if you’re coming forward with a positive proposal to trade across Europe and the world, a lot of the stock markets would say, hooray.” Then why do US-owned banks threaten to leave?
  • (12) If the year's two biggest blockbusters strive to be meatier than Transformers, hooray.
  • (13) Our pal Roger Kirkby sends his first missive of the night: 40 pitches for Boston, 25 for Detroit, hooray, a long night coming in the bar Very true, I feel like sending a long Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary email to my girlfriend.
  • (14) I'm not saying, "Hooray, he offered a tough, dark recognition of our reality."
  • (15) All you need to do is say, ‘You know what, what I’ve said this stuff in the past, it was a mistake, it’s hurting people’s mental health, it’s part of the problem, it’s not part of the solution, I’m sorry, hooray for gay people, here’s some glitter.’ ” Aleta (@aleta_k) Bob Katter won’t look at Josh Thomas - is he afraid of catching gay?
  • (16) 8.56pm BST Hooray and haroo for Ruby who is this week's star baker.
  • (17) Lagarde and Kim say the world needs to make a better fist of tackling inequality – hooray to that.
  • (18) All you need to do is say, ‘You know what, what I’ve said this stuff in the past, it was a mistake, it’s hurting people’s mental health, it’s part of the problem, it’s not part of the solution, I’m sorry, hooray for gay people, here’s some glitter.’ ” The winner of the International Emmy will be announced in a New York ceremony next month.
  • (19) He felt it had not included the little people: HS2 Ltd “haven’t really met anybody – only those that want a free lunch, the hooray Henrys”.
  • (20) The mugs said: "A royal baby in 2013" and "Hooray for Will and Kate".

Yay


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a gentler symbolism than: ‘Yay, we’ve all left the BBC!’ Because we all love the BBC.” At an estimated cost of £160m for three series, the Grand Tour is also symbolic of the changes in the global TV industry.
  • (2) The iconic show that gave Americans Chico Escuela (“baseball’s been berry berry good to me”) in the 1970s (yay, stereotypes!)
  • (3) Yay me, I cheered, only for my cheer to catch in my throat and turn into a scream of horror when someone innocently showed me a magazine feature about Ms Deschanel’s style.
  • (4) When asked by the Hollywood Reporter how the Chinese film industry had reacted to that speech, Feng said: "Within the Guild everyone was like, 'Yay!
  • (5) In these and all other species for which there are data, 5' termini map to sequences that contain the trinucleotide YAY.
  • (6) As Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor who has been a formative voice on gun controls , put it this week: "Everyone is going to have to stand up and say yay or nay.
  • (7) Out of the many stories in this collection my top two would HAVE to be The World’s Greatest Teen Detective by Derek Landy (Yay Skulduggery Pleasant!)
  • (8) • As brilliant as the Channel 4 presentation of Die Hard will be, for me the definitive version is the first version I saw, on ITV in the early 1990s – the one where Bruce Willis says "Yippee-ki-yay, kimosabe."
  • (9) Just yay!” tweeted Douglas Carswell , the Ukip MP when news of Corbyn’s polling result broke, while rightwing commentators urged Conservatives to register as Labour supporters to get him elected, under the banner #ToriesforCorbyn.
  • (10) 12.26am BST Erica (@ebrandt41) @GdnUSsports @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid yay!
  • (11) The scantily clad, aggressive, barbecuing narcissists will head indoors allowing us to – yay!
  • (12) So now you can grind your teeth in frustration, or go "yay!
  • (13) Would one want perhaps to look at some sort of judicial figure who might say yay or nay?"

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