Variant: or yad · da yad · da
Pronunciation: ' yä-d ə - ' yä-d ə
or yada yada yada or yadda yadda yadda \ - ' yä-d ə \
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of earlier yatata idle chatter, probably ultimately from British dialect and argot yatter-yatter to chatter, of imitative origin
Date: 1980
: boring or empty talk <listening to a lot of yada yada about the economy> ― often used interjectionally especially in recounting words regarded as too dull or predictable to be worth repeating