Wahey vs Waney - What's the difference?
wahey | waney |
Expressing exhilaration or delight.
* 2004 , Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking"
* 2007 , Frances Mary Hendry, Wee Malkie
A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.
(Webster 1913)
As an interjection wahey
is expressing exhilaration or delight.As a noun waney is
a sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.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!"