- Gloss
- "Look here!"
- Definition
- An exclamation used to draw attention to something surprising.
- Example
- "Cooyah! Look at dat."
- Origin
- Contraction of 'coo' (look) and 'yah' (here).
As a conversational term, Cooyah is one you'll likely come across in real Jamaican speech. Try the Jamaican Patois translator to see it in a sentence, or head back to the lexicon index for more words like it.