Definitions
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- adverb Internet slang
why (a purposeful misspelling) - conjunction Internet slang
why (a purposeful misspelling) - noun A Thai
greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with abow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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September 17, 2008 at 11:53 am sniff sniff mai saddnis lets me shows u it*runs off too grabs boks of tishuus* Uniquekitty muss c dis……*spinnz awound in chair adn runns a wai two get Uniquekitty, ais leekin all dah wai*
DIS mak dem - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Clinton exchanged the traditional Thai greeting known as "wai" - bowing deeply while pressing the palms together near the face - with some of the more than 1,400 evacuees living in gymnasiums inside the Ratchamangala National Stadium complex.
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Clinton exchanged the traditional Thai greeting known as "wai" - bowing deeply while pressing the palms together near the face - with some of the more than 1,400 evacuees living in gymnasiums inside the Ratchamangala National Stadium complex.
The Seattle Times 2011
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July 22, 2009 at 9:30 am no wai, that is eben more boring
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A wai is a slight bow with the palms pressed together close to the chest fingers together and pointing upward.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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A wai is a slight bow with the palms pressed together close to the chest fingers together and pointing upward.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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A wai is a slight bow with the palms pressed together close to the chest fingers together and pointing upward.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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For some reason he remembered Nai Watanabe's insistence that the Thai greeting called the wai, a small bow with hands clasped together in front of the upper chest, was a universal sign of respect.
The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992
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I ALOHA _i ke ko a ka wai: mele_ for the _hula ku'i_ 251
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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The name wai the same with the alteration of one letter onl) r the for the y, owing to a difference of pro - nunciation.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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