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Yodaish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Yoda + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of Yodalike
    • must people always laugh at their own jokes? it takes any humor out of what they were saying. now greg, i'm not saying you're a funny guy, because you're not. but don't laugh at your own jokes. arghh stuff like that is soo yodaish. 2000 August 10, Mikey tha Bull, “Newsgroup Open Question”, in alt.music.weezer (Usenet):
    • That's it Chuckles? All you got tonight....a yodaish pooch with a flimsy mask? I am more than a little embarrassed that you hired and paid a detective on little 'ol me. That's just so kind of you. I'm really overwhelmed....a tear...really I teared up. It's just so gratifying.... 2020 December 18, ScottW, “Party time for Witless”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet):
    • sounds a bit Yodaish to me - it's easy to understand but not what I'd expect from a *native* speaker. 2012 February 5, Gregor Kofler, “reduce all spaces to one”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet):
    • "Until you finish. You have to live in the bottle house," continued the keen, yodaish one. 2010, Dwayne Hunn, Every Town Needs A Castle, Especially When Built of Recycled Junk and Spunk, page 90:
    • I would tend to agree that minimally, the Green Lantern saga could be played well as a really decent franchise with loads of action figures and props. The Warner execx -- if this is true -- is really selling the property short. You could have Jack Black play the guy in a Yodaish sort of way as a trainer for Green Lantern with some humor inate in a potential absent minded eccentric character. 2004 July 18, Neil4161, “Comic-Con: Protest Jack Black As Green Lantern”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet):

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Synonyms

Yodalike

Yodaish en · NOUN

Etymology

From Yoda + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon, uncountable) Synonym of Yodaspeak
    • Oh brother.. What is your native language? Yodaish? they go to school and work hard, and you complain that they do well. 2009 October 25, BDK, “Re: In modern crematory, incinerating 20 jews at a time, at a rate of 3 hours/jew, around the clock continually, you finish 6,000,000 jews in: 100 years!”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
    • 20) Iacon 'Wheelie' sometimes speaks yodaish like: "Friends find, look behind..." 2000 May 8, Survive, “(spoiler) Clearing up some recent comments, and answering some questions.”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):
    • hmmmm.... now that there aren't quite as many words, you are right. Except about that Warth thing that Luc and TNorth pointed out... and what IS wrong with ghosts anyway? I also tried to speak in Yodaish, successfully, if I do say so myself... 2001 April 5, !!CrAzYzEaLoT!!, “What is the best Terran strategy?”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet):

Forms

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Yoda-ish alternative lexicographic
yodaish alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

Yodaspeak