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yage
or ya·je
[ yah-hey ]
noun
- a mildly hallucinogenic drug obtained from a South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yage1
First recorded in 1920–25; from Latin American Spanish (Colombia, Equador) yagé, apparently from an Indigenous language of southeastern Colombia or northeastern Peru
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Example Sentences
In th' old days all ye knew about a ship was that she left Liverpool and landed in New York afther a most disthressin' v'yage.
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If you was at the tiller you'd run into the fust port you come to, and there wouldn't be no v'yage at all.'
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He was mate aboard the schooner when Uncle Abner died on a v'yage from Charleston home.
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There's a couple of hundred launched every year and not more'n ten ever make a payin' v'yage.
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That's the way you used to poke fun at me aboard the old Wild Ranger when we was makin' port after a good v'yage.
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