yean

American  

[yeen] / yin /

verb (used without object)

1. (of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.

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yean British  

/ jiːn /

verb

1. (of a sheep or goat) to give birth to (offspring)

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Usage

What else does yean mean? Yean was once a verb for when a sheep or goat gives birth to a lamb or kid. That sense of yean, first recorded around 1375–1425, is now obsolete.Today, yean is a pronunciation spelling—like wanna or finna—of the phrase you ain’t even in Black English, especially in the South. Yean heard about yean?!What are some other words related to yean?finnatrynaissaelisioncontractionreduction

Etymology

Origin of yean

1375–1425; late Middle English yenen, probably continuing Old English *geēanian to bring forth young, equivalent to ge- y- + ēanian to yean, akin to Latin agnus, Greek ámnos lamb

Example Sentences

One concern is that the massive outbreaks could generate new, potentially vaccine resistant variants of the virus, “leading to knock-on virus surges across the globe, China’s reopening could still mark a positive step over the long run in light of past global attempts in bringing virus cases under control,” Yean Jun Rong of IG said in a commentary.

From Seattle Times

Ricky Yean, the chief executive of Flow Club, has called his company “basically Peloton for co-working.”

From New York Times

Ricky Yean, the co-founder and CEO of Flow Club, told me via email that the platform employs standard technical practices like SSL to protect user security.

From Slate

That data, Yean said, is stored for 21 days and used for “debugging purposes only.”

From Slate

Data such as how many sessions a user has attended and the tasks they input and accomplish is stored and shared in the user’s profile, but cannot be accessed by third parties, according to Yean.

From Slate