What is Jawohl?
1.
Meaning: Affirmative, Yes. Used as: A response to an order. From: It is a German word.
Jawohl, mein Kommandant
2.
German, military:
The only (correct) answer to any (reasonable) order given by a superior rank (or any other rank in a temporary position of authority), usually followed by a swift execution of said order.
Also more often than not followed by some form of swearing/bitching directed against the superior, when out of his/her hearing range (mostly done by conscripts in the first half of their 9-month military service or senior enlistees who consider the ordered task a nuisance and/or beneath them).
-----German-----
Uffz Schmidt: "Müller! Tun Sie dies und das! Bewegung!"
G Müller: "Jawohl, Herr Unteroffizier!"
(ein paar Sekunden später und einige Meter weiter)
G Müller: "...tun Sie dies und das! Fick dich doch du blödes Arschloch!"
-----Translation-----
Sgt. Schmidt: "Müller! Do this and that! Move your ass!"
Pvt. Müller: "Yes, Sergeant!"
(a few seconds later and several meters farther)
Pvt. Müller: "...do this and that! Go fuck yourself you stupid asshole!"
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3.
Yes
I.E. An acknowledgment to an order
"Jawohl, Mein Fuhrer"
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