"yallo" meaning in English

See yallo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Etymology: From yeah or yes and hello. Head templates: {{en-interj}} yallo
  1. A variant of hello, often associated with accents in the southern United States.
    Sense id: en-yallo-en-intj-uYFuBRx~

Download JSON data for yallo meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [],
  "etymology_text": "From yeah or yes and hello.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yallo",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ann J. Colby, Cross Town Murders, page 378",
          "text": "He answered with his usual detached inflection, “Yallo.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mari Carr, Jayne Rylon, Southern Comfort, page 52",
          "text": "“Yallo,” his boss drawled and Seth could picture the man kicked back in his recliner, beer in hand, watching a repeat of some golden oldie sitcom on TV.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Powell III, Hunter And Hunted, page 440",
          "text": "A country-boy Texas drawl, similar to Quelldon's own, spilled back from wherever the call terminated. “Yallo.” There was a small cough, then the voice repeated the mispronounced greeting. “Yallo? Anybody there?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A variant of hello, often associated with accents in the southern United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-yallo-en-intj-uYFuBRx~",
      "links": [
        [
          "hello",
          "hello"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yallo"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [],
  "etymology_text": "From yeah or yes and hello.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yallo",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ann J. Colby, Cross Town Murders, page 378",
          "text": "He answered with his usual detached inflection, “Yallo.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mari Carr, Jayne Rylon, Southern Comfort, page 52",
          "text": "“Yallo,” his boss drawled and Seth could picture the man kicked back in his recliner, beer in hand, watching a repeat of some golden oldie sitcom on TV.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Powell III, Hunter And Hunted, page 440",
          "text": "A country-boy Texas drawl, similar to Quelldon's own, spilled back from wherever the call terminated. “Yallo.” There was a small cough, then the voice repeated the mispronounced greeting. “Yallo? Anybody there?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A variant of hello, often associated with accents in the southern United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hello",
          "hello"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yallo"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.