Yapanese
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of yap (“chat excessively”) + Japanese, a language perceived as being difficult or foreign to English speakers.
Noun[edit]
Yapanese (uncountable)
- (Internet slang, humorous) Incomprehensible and meaningless speech; nonsense, waffle.
- Bro has got a PhD in Yapanese 💀
- 2023 July 27, u/PinheadLarry_, “God forbid I have an actual conversation on this app”, in Reddit[1], r/Tinder, archived from the original on 28 April 2024:
- Bro was speaking Yapanese idk what he expected
- 2023 December 5, @abey_cd11, Twitter[2], archived from the original on 28 April 2024:
- this professor is fluent in yapanese..
- 2023 December 21, @imspenser_6, Twitter[3], archived from the original on 28 April 2024:
- nigga spoke a whole lot of yapanese just to say Caitlin Clark is better and more valuable, I'm cryin dawg
- 2024 March 14, u/lilpumpski, “Doctors and baristas should be paid the same”, in Reddit[4], r/medicalschool, archived from the original on 28 April 2024:
- She's fluent in yapanese. Talking just to talk
Usage notes[edit]
- Yapanese is often discussed as though it were an actual language; thus, someone who habitually rambles on nonsensically may be said to be "fluent in Yapanese".