What does the word "waaaaay" mean? [closed]

In my book, there's a sentence:

You have waaaaay too much time on your hands and you'd like to impress the pretty girl next door with your deep and profound knowledge of MySQL's internals.
emphasis mine

Although this sentence has a clear meaning without the word "waaaaay", I am curious about this word. What does it mean?


Don't worry! It's not a new word. It's used as a colloquial emphasis - they're using the extended "aaay"s to emphasise the word way, as someone might use in normal or friendly conversation.


'way' is an informal intensifer, similar to 'really', 'pretty', or 'very'.

It has been around for a while, but much more common (way too common?) in the past twenty years.

From Dictionary.com.

way 2 2. to a great degree or at quite a distance; far: way too heavy; way down the road.

The grammar is not exactly like that of very' (you can't say "very too much"). You can say "You have a lot of time". You can say 'way too ADJ' as in "way too little", or "way too hot"