What's the difference between woohoo and yay?

Woohoo


Definition:

  • (n.) The sailfish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And the sort of soft-focus heritage boffing scenes during which there is clearly at least a metre separating boffer and boffee's woohoos.

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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