Taytay

See also: taytay, TayTay, Tay Tay, and Tay-Tay

English

Proper noun

Taytay

1. Alternative form of Tay Tay.
   • 2016, JB Salsbury, Fighting Fate, →ISBN:

     “At least I don’t just sit there bobbing my head like I’m at a Taylor Swift concert.” / Theo’s humor dissolves. “Dude, don’t knock Taytay.”

   • 2016, William Wright, Icons: Celebrity Satire, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 158:

     Katy and Taytay [image of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift]

   • 2016, Sarah Oliver, quoting Ella, Taylor Swift – Everything Has Changed, London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 215:

     So many people support Taytay over here, and we were all really upset when she didn’t bring her 1989 Tour here.

   • 2018, Gary Sinclair, “Who cares if Taytay gets pay pay? Shake it off: The apathy of the contemporary music consumer”, in Steven Caldwell Brown, Thomas J. Holt, editors, Digital Piracy: A Global, Multidisciplinary Account (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 161 and 178:

     Who cares if Taytay gets pay pay? Shake it off: The apathy of the contemporary music consumer […] Note / 1 Taytay is the nickname for the popstar Taylor Swift.

   • 2018, Peter M. Ball, You Don’t Want To Be Published: And Other Things Nobody Tells You When You First Start Writing, Upper Mount Gravatt, Qld.: Brain Jar Press, →ISBN:

     People don’t want you to make art. They feel threatened by happy artists and immediately move to vilify them for the crime of being arty and well-adjusted at the same time. They get demonised the way artists like … shit, I don’t know. Adam Sandler? Stephanie Meyer? Taylor Swift? Do we still demonise Taytay, or has she moved onto the vaguely-respectable older artist phase of her career?

   • 2021, Daniel T. Willingham, Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom, 2nd edition, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 9:

     A biography of Taylor Swift is more likely to sell well than a biography of Keats. What characterizes the mental activity that people enjoy (Figure 1.5)? The answer that most people would give may seem obvious: “I think crossword puzzles are fun and Taytay is cool, but math is boring and so is Keats.”

Tagalog

Etymology

From taytay (“bamboo or wooden footbridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tajˈtaj/, [taɪ̯ˈtaɪ̯]
• Hyphenation: Tay‧tay

Proper noun

Taytáy (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜌ᜔ᜆᜌ᜔)

1. Taytay (a municipality of Rizal, Philippines)
2. Taytay (a municipality of Palawan, Philippines)