Delight vs Wahey - What's the difference?
delight | wahey |
Joy; pleasure.
* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
* Shakespeare
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* Milton:
* (Greensleeves):
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
* Tennyson
(label) To have or take great pleasure
Expressing exhilaration or delight.
* 2004 , Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking"
* 2007 , Frances Mary Hendry, Wee Malkie
As a noun delight
is joy; pleasure.As a verb delight
is to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.As an interjection wahey is
expressing exhilaration or delight.delight
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fool hath no delight in understanding.
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
- Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
- Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,
Derived terms
* undelight * delightfulVerb
(en verb)- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
Derived terms
* delight inExternal links
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* *wahey
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- People have this image of us. They think we're cock rock. It's time to rein it in a bit. We're not going, Wahey ! and pouring champagne on girls' tits.
- And he did, every day — rabbits, hares; he once leapt hugely after a pheasant we put up, and got it too. "Wahey , go for it, Bullet!"
