yahoo
English
Etymology
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where it is the name of a race of brutes.[1]
Pronunciation
Stressed on the first syllable as a noun, and second as interjection.
Noun
yahoo (plural yahoos)
- (pejorative) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
- (cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
- 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN, who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report
- The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.
- 1985, Michael Raynal, Yahoos in the Bahamas, Cryptozoology, volume 4:
- 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN, who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report
Synonyms
Interjection
yahoo
- An exclamation of joy.
- A battle cry.
Verb
yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)
- To give a cry of "yahoo".
References
- ↑ “yahoo” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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