Hyah vs Nyah - What's the difference?
hyah | nyah |
As interjections the difference between hyah and nyah is that hyah is a call, often to horses, livestock, or cattle, to move forward or proceed or hyah can be (martial arts) a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow while nyah is expressing smug triumph.
hyah English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from a variant of
Alternative forms
* ya
Interjection
( en-interjection)
a call, often to horses, livestock, or cattle, to move forward or proceed
- Hyah''', mule! '''Hyah !
Etymology 2
Variation of kiai.
Alternative forms
* hi-yah
Interjection
( en-interjection)
(martial arts) a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow |
nyah English
Interjection
( en interjection)
Expressing smug triumph.
* 1993 , Ted Andrews, Enchantment of the faerie realm (page 74)
- When the waves didn't catch me, I would laugh and sing out, "Nyah , nyah, nyah!"
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 7, author=George Vecsey, title=On Big Day for Bronx, Cheating Is Nonissue, work=New York Times citation
, passage=Yankee fans have been saying, Nyah, nyah , I told you so, since the news was revealed in The New York Times. }}
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