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yahoo

[yah-hoo]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

interjection

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

Yahoo

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plural

Yahoos

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

yahoo

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noun

a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person

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Other Word Forms

yahooism noun
�ⲹˈ��ǴǾ�� noun

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Word 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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Word 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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But Ulman is too skeptical to suggest these yahoos could redeem themselves by ferreting out the real problems happening in her home country.

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

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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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Yahgan Yahoos

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