Repeated, yah! yah!, denoting a perverted or affected pronunciation of ‘hear! hear!’
1886. H. W. Lucy, Diary Gladstone Parlt., 349. There are cheers of various kinds. There is Mr. Alderman Fowler’s deep-chested ‘Yah, yah, YAH!’
1887. Punch, 21 March, 132/1. I used to call out ‘Yah! yah!’ as I do in House of Commons.
