gyatt

What it means

Gyatt is a drawn-out shout of surprise, usually at how someone looks. It works as an exclamation on its own, and it has drifted into being a noun for the figure that prompted it. It is loud, unserious and firmly informal — the kind of thing said as a joke between friends rather than a compliment you would pay someone directly.

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Examples

• Gyatt! Where did you get that outfit?
• He said gyatt out loud in the middle of the lecture.
• My little cousin will not stop saying gyatt.
• The whole chat just typed gyatt at the same time.

Where it comes from

A stretched pronunciation of "goddamn" that spread through Twitch streamers around 2022 and then through TikTok and YouTube Shorts, where it became one of the defining words of the "brainrot" wave.

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