I'm a libertarian, but John here is a communitarian.

to hack away at the tough roots of a tree

Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about yeeting his Speak Freely into the fire...[He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out yeet while he threw it.

Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth. […]