Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
yin .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word yins.
Examples
-
Young yins look at boiled sweets as if it's poison if I let them try one.
Life is sweet 2011
-
The 64 hexagrams in the I Ching are the full set of combinations of yins and yangs when taken in groups of six at a time.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
-
The 64 hexagrams in the I Ching are the full set of combinations of yins and yangs when taken in groups of six at a time.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
-
You can't have every skill in the world, or even live with someone who yins your yang, but you can get by.
Storm Patrol 2008
-
The 64 hexagrams in the I Ching are the full set of combinations of yins and yangs when taken in groups of six at a time.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
-
Don't buy the SNP heid-yins did him in theory - if they did Salmond wouldn't have appointed Kerr as a special advisor - he would have held out.
SNP Candidate steps down from Glasgow NE by-election Jeff 2009
-
Bad ju ju to do for fame and fortune.also looks like he clipped meeting of 3 yins on leg.thats spleen 6 .thats the set up.the theory is based on traditional chinese medicine.
-
Under certain circumstances you may use youse or yins.
One man's "justice nerve" is another man's "collectivist nerve." Ann Althouse 2008
-
Sorry to be a downer on this of all days, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's that yins always have their yangs.
-
“We need to get out of here before our yangs turn into yins.”
HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATION Mark Walden 2006
vanishedone commented on the word yins
Is WeirdNet correct in thinking there can be more than one yin?
November 9, 2008
dontcry commented on the word yins
Yins = "You all" in Pittsburghese.
November 9, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word yins
See also yinz.
November 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word yins
Yes, and "yins" is singular and plural at once. :-)
November 10, 2008