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yahoo

1

[ yah-hoo ]

interjection

  1. (an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)


Yahoo

2

[ yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo ]

noun

plural Yahoos.
  1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels ) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
  2. (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
  3. (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.

yahoo

/ Âáəˈ³ó³ÜË /

noun

  1. a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ²â²¹Ëˆ³ó´Ç´Ç¾±²õ³¾, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of yahoo1

First recorded in 1975–80; of imitative origin

Origin of yahoo2

Coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of yahoo1

C18: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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Example Sentences

Sextortion has become big business in Nigeria involving thousands of young men nicknamed “yahoo boysâ€.

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They see their voters as a bunch of yahoos who are stupid enough to believe their lies.

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Perhaps he goes too far in stacking the deck: Though some of Wolff’s antagonists, especially the girl’s yahoo of a father, make clearly antisemitic remarks, Wolff herself is almost worse.

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It's not clear even to the yahoos who worship Trump how rioting at a courthouse would do much to derail the march of justice.

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Regular soldiers looked down on General Hamdan and his paramilitaries as a motley crew — “a bunch of jumped-up yahoos from the sticks, not proper military men,†as one Western ambassador put it.

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