yoyo

Genericized trademark. Likely from Ilocano yóyo or another Philippine cognate.^[1]

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yoyo (plural yoyos)

1. Alternative spelling of yo-yo.

yoyo (third-person singular simple present yoyos, present participle yoyoing, simple past and past participle yoyoed)

1. Alternative spelling of yo-yo.

From English yo-yo / yoyo. Formerly a trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo.

• Hyphenation: yo‧yo

yoyo

1. a yo-yo; a toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist
2. a cake that is shaped like a yoyo, akin to a cookie sandwich, often purple and with a margarine filling and rolled in white sugar

yoyo

1. to play with a yo-yo

• IPA^(key): /jo.jo/

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yoyo m (plural yoyos)

1. yo-yo

• “yoyo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

yoyo (plural yoyi)

1. yo-yo

From Spanish yoyo, according to Constantino (1971).^[1] See also Spanish yo (“I”) & Ilocano yo (“you; by you; your”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjojo/ [ˈjo.jo]
• Hyphenation: yo‧yo

yóyo

1. yo-yo

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈjojo/ [ˈjo.jo]
• Rhymes: -ojo
• Syllabification: yo‧yo

yoyo (plural yoyo-yoyo)

1. yo-yo (kind of toy)

yoyo

1. Rōmaji transcription of よよ

yoyo

1. mudfish

• Rhymes: -oʝo
• Syllabification: yo‧yo

yoyo m (plural yoyos)

1. (Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Philippines, US) alternative form of yoyó

• “yoyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• yuyo

Borrowed from English yo-yo, a genericized trademark, possibly from Ilocano yoyo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjojoʔ/ [ˈjoː.joʔ]
• Rhymes: -ojoʔ
• Syllabification: yo‧yo

yoyò (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜌᜓ)

1. yo-yo

• “yoyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• oyoy

• IPA^(key): [ˈjo.jo]

yoyo

1. wow!

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh