yo-yo

Etymology
. Most likely from, or another cognate.

Noun

 * 1) A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.
 * 2)  A volatile market that moves up and down.
 * 3)  Someone who vacillates.
 * 4)  A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
 * 5)  A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
 * 6)  A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
 * 1)  A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
 * 2)  A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: jojo
 * Arabic:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 搖搖
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dhivehi: ޔޯޔޯ
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יו־יו
 * Hindi: योयो, यो-यो
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: jójó
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ヨーヨー
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Rumi: yoyo
 * Marathi: योयो
 * Norwegian: jojo
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јо-јо
 * Roman: jo-jo
 * Slovak: jojo
 * Spanish: yo-yo, yoyó
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: โยโย่
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: йо-йо́, йо́-йо
 * Urdu: یو یو

Verb

 * 1)  To vacillate; to move up and down.

Etymology
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