Top definition
1) A person or persons (plural:tanyakayes) that are as of yet unknown to you. Describes non-familiarity in another human being.

2) Someone with a certain mystique or unfathamable nature.

tanyakaye can be written capitalised 'Tanyakaye' or non-capitalised 'tanyakaye.' Both of these are correct in any context (with the obvious exception of the start of a sentence.) Watch out for the Rogue spelling which omits the 'e' (tanyakay.) This is incorrect and completely unrelated.
1) 'Man, I got so drunk last night, woke up this morning next to a total tanyakaye'

1i) 'how was the party?'
'lame dude. Didn't know anyone, just a whole house of tanyakayes'

2) 'That girl's really got something to her. I can't work her out. She's a bit of tanyakaye character.'
by Chris Over March 03, 2008
Get a Tanyakaye mug for your mama Rihanna.
Jun 18 Word of the Day
Adj. Something that is expected to have a long lifespan by virtue of having existed for a long time, based on the lindy effect, named for the New York restaurant Lindy's, coined by Albert Goldman and popularized by Nassim Taleb.
cooking with fire is lindy
by mmebs June 13, 2021
Get a lindy mug for your coworker José.