joee
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English joye, from Old French joie, from Latin gaudia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
joee (plural joees)
- joy
- Synonym: gleezom
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:
- How yarthe to-die, mee joee?
- How art thou to-day, my joy?
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 48