yahoo

Definition

A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

Etymology

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.

Example Sentences

• "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."
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