Crossword clues for yessir
yessir
- Private response
- Polite agreement
- Response to an order
- Recruit's response
- Private aye
- Private agreement?
- Base reply?
- Soldier's respectful reply
- Respectful response
- Private acknowledgment?
- Military assent
- General reply
- Underling's assent
- Underling's acquiescence
- Soldier's assent
- Soldier's affirmative response: 2 wds
- Service agreement
- Scolded child's reply, perhaps
- Salute-accompanying reply
- Response to one in command
- Respectful, affirmative response
- Private's positive response to an officer: 2 wds
- Possible reply to a general question?
- Grunt's agreement
- Cry during a drill
- Corporal's affirmative
- Compliant agreement
- Cadet's assent
- Black sheep's affirmative, in a nursery rhyme
- Basic training affirmative
- Assent on a military base
- Army affir-mative
- "You got it, boss man!"
- "Downton Abbey" assent
- "As you command"
- "You bet!"
- Emphatic affirmative
- Military response
- Boot camp reply
- Answer with a salute
- Cadet's reply
- Boot camp affirmative
- Base approval
- Private line?
- Private response?
- Drill bit?
- Polite affirmation
- Reply to a higher-up
- "Absolutely!"
- Private aye?
- Private reply?
- Affirmative to a commanding officer
- General reply?
- G.I.'s respectful assent
- Private's reply
- " ___, That's My Baby," 1925 song
- Private's response to a sergeant
- Answer to a lieutenant
- Polite reply
- Polite assent
- Words of agreement
- Emphatic agreement with a man: 2 wds
- "No question"
- Private reply
- Army affirmative
- Polite answer
- "I'm on it!"
- Respectful reply
- Private line
- Plebe's response
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yessir
1836, representing a quick reply of yes, sir (in 19c. writing typically of restaurant waiters taking orders). Extended form yessiree attested from 1846.
Wiktionary
yessir
interj. (context informal or military English) (non-gloss definition: Used to express assent, especially to a superior.)
Usage examples of "yessir".
Yessir, then they would all drive down to Anglada's Floral City in Chamisaville and load up with gaudy plastic bouquets to heap on Joe's rocky mound in the Milagro camposanto!
Yessir, I would be happy to provide you with information legitimizing my employ at USB.