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exclamation
informal USUsed to express emphatic affirmation: ‘yes indeed’. Occasionally more fully "yessiree bob", "yessiree bub". Compare no siree , "yessir".
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia). From yes + siree, variant of sorry.
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