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Yeap vs Yea - What's the difference?

yeap | yea |

As adverbs the difference between yeap and yea

is that yeap is while yea is (dated) yes.

As a conjunction yea is

(archaic) or even, or more like, nay introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.

As an interjection yea is

yeah, right, yes.

As a noun yea is

an affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken.

yeap

English

Adverb

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  • * 1950 , Conrad Aiken, The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken
    • "Yeap , I do. D'you see that chair on the porch?"
  • * 2003 , Rick W White, Comes Like a Raging Fire
    • I told her, "Yeap . I'm here on vacation." We both smiled, as she told me, "Me too."
  • * 2009 , Terri Lee Ryan, Life Is One Big To-Do List: A Woman's Life After 40
    • Yeap , I'm coming back in my next life as a daughter of one of my friends. I would never have to worry about looking ugly.

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    yea

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (dated) yes
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Yea , have not too many amongst us added to their unreformation an impudence in sinning?
  • Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture)
    • The pony was yea high.

    Synonyms

    * (yes) aye, yep, yes, yup

    Antonyms

    * nay * no

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (archaic) or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
  • * c. 1633 ,
    • O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
    Where we almost, yea , more than married are.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • yeah, right, yes
  • alternative form of yeah

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 6, , Still Broken After All These Years, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman. }}

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