It was first used in 1998 where British motoring journalist and presenter Jeremy Clarkson when he was pouring a corrosive acid on a red Porsche 911, a vehicle he is famously known to be at odds with.
Nice! Glad you could share that. Further illustrating how complicated the history of this word is because no matter how many sources I looked at, that one never came up. So, if that were the root of the word, then it would be an interjection.
With some year-range-based search-engine searches, with older engines that are still around, I found a few throwing-tied references as far back as 1997. It's at least that old.
Nice! Glad you could share that. Further illustrating how complicated the history of this word is because no matter how many sources I looked at, that one never came up. So, if that were the root of the word, then it would be an interjection.
Wow! It's crazy this video even exists! It Atlanta, we'd been saying "Yeet!" since about 1996. It was definitely an exclamation whether it was throwing something or expressing excitement. Definitely not for dancing in 1996. Our dances still had full names ((Bank head Bounce, Butterfly, Tootsie Roll, etc...). "Yeet" was an exclamation comparable to "Oh yeah!" Like the Kool-Aid Man. It was confirming excitement in something said or done. We would yell "YEET!" when throwing something. In the South, 9/10 you're throwing rocks and if you live near still water, you're skipping stones. That's when my friends and I said it the most. It was never called "yeeting" but I guess it became known as that was the battlecry
At 11:49 The two 2007 references are speaking in cantonese. They are referring to the phrase "hot" Ho yeet is referring to "very hot". Great video still, thanks
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has an entry for the verb yeet that is now obsolete, and is only recorded in the Middle English period (1150-1500). The OED's only evidence for yeet is from 1440, in Promptorium Parvulorum.
UPDATE: I meant to say "etymonline.com" instead of "etymology.com". #TotalBrainFart So any place in this video that I say etymology.com, this was a mistake; I am meaning to reference etymonline.com
It was first used in 1998 where British motoring journalist and presenter Jeremy Clarkson when he was pouring a corrosive acid on a red Porsche 911, a vehicle he is famously known to be at odds with.
Yes, I think a few of us have discussed this elsewhere in the comments too.
IT WAS JEREMY CLARKSON IN 1998... On a British car show called top gear he said the word "yeet" twice while pouring acid onto a car.
Nice! Glad you could share that. Further illustrating how complicated the history of this word is because no matter how many sources I looked at, that one never came up. So, if that were the root of the word, then it would be an interjection.
With some year-range-based search-engine searches, with older engines that are still around, I found a few throwing-tied references as far back as 1997. It's at least that old.
Oh do share!
King of Hill episode in 1999 appears to be the first use of the word Yeet for throwing an object
And the history of this word continues to unfold! Thanks for sharing that!
There is video evidence of Jeremy Clarkson using the word 'yeet' repeatedly on the BBC's 'Top Gear' (whilst dousing a car in acid) in 1998.
Nice! Glad you could share that. Further illustrating how complicated the history of this word is because no matter how many sources I looked at, that one never came up. So, if that were the root of the word, then it would be an interjection.
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Wow! It's crazy this video even exists! It Atlanta, we'd been saying "Yeet!" since about 1996. It was definitely an exclamation whether it was throwing something or expressing excitement. Definitely not for dancing in 1996. Our dances still had full names ((Bank head Bounce, Butterfly, Tootsie Roll, etc...). "Yeet" was an exclamation comparable to "Oh yeah!" Like the Kool-Aid Man. It was confirming excitement in something said or done. We would yell "YEET!" when throwing something. In the South, 9/10 you're throwing rocks and if you live near still water, you're skipping stones. That's when my friends and I said it the most. It was never called "yeeting" but I guess it became known as that was the battlecry
At 11:49
The two 2007 references are speaking in cantonese.
They are referring to the phrase "hot"
Ho yeet is referring to "very hot".
Great video still, thanks
Perfect! Thank you for the added facts!
We where definitely saying it in 1996 in African American community
For throwing? For dancing?
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has an entry for the verb yeet that is now obsolete, and is only recorded in the Middle English period (1150-1500). The OED's only evidence for yeet is from 1440, in Promptorium Parvulorum.
I must be old-fashioned because I still say "an historical."
No its from main event jey uso yeet💙
Jimmy said it before Jey..
7:00 begins discussing yeet.
There's already an index with chapters in the description. Stick to bananas, ape.
UPDATE: I meant to say "etymonline.com" instead of "etymology.com". #TotalBrainFart So any place in this video that I say etymology.com, this was a mistake; I am meaning to reference etymonline.com