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delight | wahey |

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)
  • Joy; pleasure.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
  • A fool hath no delight in understanding.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
  • * Milton:
  • Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
  • * (Greensleeves):
  • Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,

    Derived terms

    * undelight * delightful

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
  • * Tennyson
  • Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
  • (label) To have or take great pleasure
  • Derived terms

    * delight in

    Anagrams

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    wahey

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Expressing exhilaration or delight.
  • * 2004 , Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking"
  • 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.
  • * 2007 , Frances Mary Hendry, Wee Malkie
  • 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!"

    Synonyms

    * woohoo * yahoo