Etymology

yé-yé

Today it means: A genre of pop music of the early 1960s in Europe. Full definition →

French yéyé ← English yeah-yeah
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The story

  1. English · derived fromyeah-yeah
  2. French · borrowed fromyéyé
  3. English todayyé-yé

From French yéyé, from English yeah-yeah.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.