English
Etymology
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀkas
English soyjak
From the Internet meme soyjak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with an excited expression. Blend of soy boy + wojak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔɪ.dʒæk/
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔɪ.(j)æk/, /-(j)ɑːk/ (copying Polish)
Noun
soyjak (plural soyjaks)
- (Internet) An online image of an emasculate man, often with an excited expression (soy face), with an art style based upon the original wojak.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Synonym of soy boy (“an effeminate or unmasculine man”).
Verb
soyjak (third-person singular simple present soyjaks, present participle soyjaking or soyjakking, simple past and past participle soyjaked or soyjakked)
- (Internet slang, intransitive, sometimes derogatory) To gape like a soyjak; to be excited or surprised; to soyface.
2023 July 27, @aatracoes, Twitter[1]:finally found my screenshot of this. i did the closest thing i've ever done to soyjaking when she said this line
2023 November 1, @ScottMGreer, Twitter[2]:Conservatives are outraged by this, but if the police came to his place for tearing down missing Israeli posters, they would be soyjaking. A good reminder that speech restrictions primarily hurt the Right
2024 May 20, @Trey_Explainer, Twitter[3]:My phone made one of those random compilation videos and I literally soyjaked at this one bit because I genuinely don’t remember ever looking this beautiful