adj. phr. (colloquial).—Insipid, watery; e.g., a poor YAY-NAY sort of a person = a stupid, doltish block: one who can say but YEA or NAY to a question: see next entry.
c. 1780. BURNEY, Diary, II. 288. She is a sort of YEA AND NAY young gentlewoman, to me very wearisome.
