yahoo

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈjɑːhuː/ Rhymes: -ɑːhu ==== Noun ==== yahoo (plural yahoos) (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual. (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. ===== Synonyms ===== (a rough, coarse, or uncouth person): yokel, lout ===== Coordinate terms ===== Houyhnhnm ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Expressive. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /jəˈhuː/ Rhymes: -uː ==== Interjection ==== yahoo Exclamation of joy or enjoyment. Battle cry. (Can we add an example for this sense?) ===== Synonyms ===== (exclamation of joy or enjoyment): See Thesaurus:yay ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed) (transitive, intransitive, informal) To give a cry of yahoo. === Etymology 3 === From Yahoo!. ==== Verb ==== yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed) Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo. === References === === Anagrams === ooyah