What is a yo man?

1a : an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household. b : a person attending or assisting another : retainer. c : yeoman of the guard. d : a naval petty officer who performs clerical duties.
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What is an example of a yeoman?

The definition of a yeoman is an attendant, servant or assistant in England or a petty officer in the U.S. Navy. An example of a yeoman is a butler in an old British mystery novel. (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
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What is a yeoman job?

US. : very good, hard, and valuable work that someone does especially to support a cause, to help a team, etc. They've done yeoman's work in raising money for the organization.
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Is Yo a rude word?

You should note that many people find being addressed with "Yo!" find it annoying.. Not to mention rude and insulting. WyomingSue said: It's not only for young people, because we started using it when I was in college in the late 70's and early 80's.
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What does it mean to call someone a yo-yo?

Slang. a stupid, foolish, or incompetent person. adjective. Informal. moving up and down or back and forth; fluctuating; vacillating: yo-yo prices; a yo-yo foreign policy.
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What is a yo female?

Yo is a gender-neutral pronoun because it's used both for males and females. As the name implies, gender-neutral pronouns are ones which contain no indication of the gender of their referent. In English, all our first and second person pronouns are gender neutral: I, me, my, mine, we, our, ours, you, your, yours.
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Is yo a black word?

Yo is an American English slang interjection. The origins of the word may possibly be traced back to 14th century England. However, it was highly popularized after being commonly used among Italian Americans and African Americans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Can yo mean yes?

From Middle English yo, io, ȝo, yeo, yaw, variant forms of Middle English ya, ye (“yes, yea" ), from Old English Ä¡Ä“a (“yes, yea" ).
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What is a Discophile?

Definition of discophile

: one who studies and collects phonograph records or CDs.
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What is the meaning of passing the buck?

To shift blame from oneself to another person: “Passing the buck is a way of life in large bureaucracies.” (See the buck stops here.)
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What is the difference between a yeoman and a husbandman?

Quick Reference. The old word for a farmer below the rank of yeoman. A husbandman usually held his land by copyhold or leasehold tenure and may be regarded as the 'average farmer in his locality'. The words 'yeoman' and 'husbandman' were gradually replaced in the later 18th and 19th centuries by 'farmer'.
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Was a yeoman a gentleman?

Yeoman is included; probably for the first time in an English language dictionary. But only a legal definition was given: (1) a social class immediately below a Gentleman; and (2) a freeborn man who can sell "his own free land in yearly revenue to the summe of 40 shillings Sterling".
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Which of the following would be considered yeomen?

yeoman, in English history, a class intermediate between the gentry and the labourers; a yeoman was usually a landholder but could also be a retainer, guard, attendant, or subordinate official.
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How do you use yo in slang?

AYO is a slang term which means "Hey You." It is used as a greeting, similar to "Hi" or "Hello." "Hey You" is also abbreviated as EYO, HEYO, and HEYY.
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What is yo English?

exclamation. infml. /joʊ/ used as a spoken greeting, or to get someone's attention: Yo, check it out!
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What does yo mean Baltimore?

The word "yo" is not just a greeting or a way to get another's attention anymore. It's being used as a gender-neutral pronoun by middle- and high-school students in Baltimore, Md.
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Can a male have no Y chromosome?

About 1 in 20,000 men has no Y chromosome, instead having 2 Xs. This means that in the United States there are about 7,500 men without a Y chromosome. The equivalent situation – females who have XY instead of XX chromosomes – can occur for a variety of reasons and overall is similar in frequency.
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Does everyone start off as a girl?

Geneticists have discovered that all human embryos start life as females, as do all embryos of mammals. About the 2nd month the fetal tests elaborate enough androgens to offset the maternal estrogens and maleness develops.
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What does the Y chromosome do?

The Y chromosome contains a "male-determining gene," the SRY gene, that causes testes to form in the embryo and results in development of external and internal male genitalia. If there is a mutation in the SRY gene, the embryo will develop female genitalia despite having XY chromosomes.
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What is full form of yo-yo?

Acronym. Definition. YOYO. You're On Your Own.
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What language is yo-yo?

The word yo probably comes from the Ilocano term yóyo, or a cognate word from the Philippines.
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