yahoon.

Brit.

/ˈjɑːhuː/, U.S.

/ˈjɑˌhu/,

/ˈjeɪˌhu/

1. A name invented by Swift in Gulliver's Travels for an imaginary race of brutes having the form of men; hence transferred and allusively, a human being of a degraded or bestial type. (Cf. houyhnhnm n.) Frequently in modern use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout, a hooligan.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > race > person of mythical races > [noun]

pygmya1387

pygman?a1425

pygmeana1540

Cimmerian1594

yahoo1726

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun]

carter1509

clumpertonc1534

club1542

pig1546

lout1548

clinchpoop1555

clout-shoe1563

loose-breech1575

hoyden1593

clunch1602

clod1607

camel1609

clusterfist1611

loon1619

Grobian1621

clota1637

hoyde1636

Hottentot1710

yahoo1726

polisson1866

mucker1884

bohunk1908

hairy ape1931

cafone1949

trog1956

oafo1959

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person

runt1602

home-bred1609

pork1645

Huna1744

savage1762

heathen1817

Philistine1825

stringy-bark1833

roughneck1834

yahoo1861

yapc1894

lowbrow1901

meatball1937

primitive1967

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person

bearc1395

carter1509

kensy?a1513

clumpertonc1534

club1542

lout1548

clinchpoop1555

clout-shoe1563

loose-breech1575

clown1583

hoyden1593

boor1598

kill-courtesy1600

rustic1600

clunch1602

loblolly1604

camel1609

clusterfist1611

loon1619

Grobian1621

rough diamonda1625

hoyde1636

clodhopper1699

roughhead1726

indelicate1741

vulgarian1809

snob1838

vulgarist1847

yahoo1861

cave-dweller1865

polisson1866

mucker1884

caveman1907

wampus1912

yobbo1922

yenta1923

yob1927

rude1946

cafone1949

no-neck1961

ocker1971

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 23 The Fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my Hands in nothing else, but the Length of the Nails, the Coarseness and Brownness of the Palms, and the Hairiness on the Backs.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §5. 28 At the expence of disgracing reason and human nature, and making mankind yahoos.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iv. x. 238 To see a noble creature start..at the passionate exclamation of a mere Yahoo of a stable-boy.

1829 T. B. Macaulay Mill on Govt. in Misc. Writ. (1868) 143/1 Because civilised men, pursuing their own happiness in a social state, are not Yahoos fighting for carrion.

1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe lv ‘And what sort of fellow is he?..a Yahoo, I suppose?’ ‘Not at all; he is..a perfect gentleman.’

1904 C. R. Ashbee Last Rec. Cotswold Community p. xxiii To have..the pleasant valleys of Saintbury and Weston tramped by armed bands of Birmingham yahoos.

1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. Yahoo, a lout from the back-country, an ignoramus, a know-nothing.

1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iii. 83 You must not behave like a yahoo in my mathematical set.

1943 J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 23 May in Ancestral Voices (1975) 200 I took the young yahoo..to the station.

1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 May 6/4 A Brisbane boat owner has complained that ‘young yahoos’ are stripping cars left at bayside boat ramps.

1977 New Yorker 20 June 56/2 Sarge Waller—who is, among other things, a professional riverman—later commented on Cook and Ulvi's journey and described them as ‘yahoos’.

attributive.1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iv. 49 I told him, we had great Numbers [of Houyhnhnms]..[that] Yahoo-Servants were employed to rub their Skins smooth.1735 J. Swift Gulliver Introd. Let., in Wks. III. vi I must..confess, that..some Corruptions of my Yahoo Nature have revived in me.1751 T. Warton New-Market 14 That hated animal, a Yahoo-Squire.1888 F. Harrison in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 681 Pessimist pictures of human destiny and Ya-hoo theories of human life.

2. = wild man n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang)

satyra1398

orangutan1699

man of the woods1755

pongo1775

orang1778

yahooc1790

wild man1791

mias1840

red orang1840

outang1869

lesser orang-utan1903

c1790 During the Fair to be seen Alive in J. A. Ferguson Bibliogr. Austral. (1986) I. 43 Two surprising large Yohoes; or, wild men of the woods.

1814 Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 22 Apr. 3/5 Just arrived, and to be seen in a commodious booth, in the Crown and Anchor Yard, Lincoln... The Great Yahoo, or Wild Man of the Woods.

3. Australian. [Perhaps a different word.] A probably mythical creature resembling a big hairy man, said to haunt eastern Australia. Cf. yowie n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > miscellaneous hairy and man-like

yahoo1842

sasquatch1929

Bigfoot1958

yowie1976

1842 in G. C. Joyner Hairy Man South Eastern Austral. (1977) 5 A contested point has long existed among Australian naturalists whether or not such an animal as the Yahoo existed.

1844 L. A. Meredith Notes & Sketches New S. Wales x. 95 They have an evil spirit, which causes them great terror, whom they call ‘Yahoo’, or ‘Devil-devil.’

1876 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 4 Nov. 729 For many years past it had been believed by the settlers of that wild part of the country, that the Walla Walla scrub was inhabited by a monster called ‘the hairy man of the wood’, or what all the blacks stand so much in dread of—the Yahoo.

1937 Mankind II. iv. 91 [J.N., a Kumtangerai, told me that big hairy men lived in the scrub at Nana Glen (North Coast, N.S.W.), and were called by the native Jarrā-wahu.]

1937 Mankind II. iv. 91 In the Mudgee district..a scrubby place was reputed to be the abode of a ‘Yahu’, and a resident in the Maitland district told me a ‘Yahu’ was reputed to live in thick scrub there. Each said he was a big hairy man.

Derivatives

yaˈhoo v. (intransitive) to behave like a yahoo.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > be loutish [verb (intransitive)]

yahoo1868

hoon1983

1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead iii. v A dam low-bred lot, yahooin' all over the place.

yaˈhoodom n. the realm of yahoos, yahoos collectively; also, behaviour characteristic of a yahoo.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > miscellaneous hairy and man-like > behaviour characteristic of

yahoodom1890

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] > collectively

yahoodom1890

muckerdom1893

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person > collective, condition, or estate of

clownship1606

boorish1794

yahoodom1890

muckerdom1893

ockerdom1974

1890 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) vii. 162 The grotesque Yahoodom of nipping pieces off a half-presented foetus and slamming it into the market.

1906 Sun (N.Y.) 17 Aug. 4/1 One dictum in a Judge's mouth can..unleash all Yahoodom.

yaˈhooish adj. resembling or characteristic of a yahoo.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [adjective]

carterly1519

loutisha1556

carterlike1561

loutlike1567

swaddish1593

tartarous1602

cluster-fisted1611

cloddish1844

yahooish1885

muckerish1900

Neanderthal1928

1885 D. Masson Carlyle i. 37 The infrahuman, the Yahooish, the diabolic.

yaˈhooism n. style or quality characteristic or suggestive of a yahoo.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour

villainyc1340

churlhood1382

rudenessc1405

boistousness1526

uplandishness1530

rusticity1531

coarseness1541

loutishnessa1556

grossness1563

boorishness1570

rusticality1572

clownishness1576

bouerie1577

roughness1581

clownery1589

swinishness1591

peasantryc1592

inurbanity1598

community1600

rusticalnessa1603

clownagea1637

wildness1639

vulgarness1642

unpolishedness1652

brutism1687

mismanners1697

unpoliteness1700

brutality1709

mechanicism1710

indelicacy1712

untameness1727

vulgarism1749

vulgaritya1774

shag1785

piggishness1796

cubbishness1828

sylvanity1832

rusticness1838

plebeianness1840

swainishness1854

baboonery1857

yahooism1862

slanginess1865

bucolicism1879

vulgarianism1920

outbackery1961

yobbishness1969

ockerism1974

blokeishness1989

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] > quality or condition of

loutishnessa1556

yahooism1862

muckerism1900

1862 Rossetti in Fraser's Mag. July 70 Those ‘yahooisms’ are degrading in art.

1901 Speaker 5 Jan. 374/1 In the ‘Scotsman’ we have Yahooism militant.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yahoo
释义	yahoon. Brit. /ˈjɑːhuː/, U.S. /ˈjɑˌhu/, /ˈjeɪˌhu/ 1. A name invented by Swift in Gulliver's Travels for an imaginary race of brutes having the form of men; hence transferred and allusively, a human being of a degraded or bestial type. (Cf. houyhnhnm n.) Frequently in modern use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout, a hooligan. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > person of mythical races > [noun] pygmya1387 pygman?a1425 pygmeana1540 Cimmerian1594 yahoo1726 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] carter1509 clumpertonc1534 club1542 pig1546 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 hoyden1593 clunch1602 clod1607 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 clota1637 hoyde1636 Hottentot1710 yahoo1726 polisson1866 mucker1884 bohunk1908 hairy ape1931 cafone1949 trog1956 oafo1959 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person runt1602 home-bred1609 pork1645 Huna1744 savage1762 heathen1817 Philistine1825 stringy-bark1833 roughneck1834 yahoo1861 yapc1894 lowbrow1901 meatball1937 primitive1967 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person bearc1395 carter1509 kensy?a1513 clumpertonc1534 club1542 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 clown1583 hoyden1593 boor1598 kill-courtesy1600 rustic1600 clunch1602 loblolly1604 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 rough diamonda1625 hoyde1636 clodhopper1699 roughhead1726 indelicate1741 vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 yahoo1861 cave-dweller1865 polisson1866 mucker1884 caveman1907 wampus1912 yobbo1922 yenta1923 yob1927 rude1946 cafone1949 no-neck1961 ocker1971 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 23 The Fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my Hands in nothing else, but the Length of the Nails, the Coarseness and Brownness of the Palms, and the Hairiness on the Backs. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §5. 28 At the expence of disgracing reason and human nature, and making mankind yahoos. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iv. x. 238 To see a noble creature start..at the passionate exclamation of a mere Yahoo of a stable-boy. 1829 T. B. Macaulay Mill on Govt. in Misc. Writ. (1868) 143/1 Because civilised men, pursuing their own happiness in a social state, are not Yahoos fighting for carrion. 1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe lv ‘And what sort of fellow is he?..a Yahoo, I suppose?’ ‘Not at all; he is..a perfect gentleman.’ 1904 C. R. Ashbee Last Rec. Cotswold Community p. xxiii To have..the pleasant valleys of Saintbury and Weston tramped by armed bands of Birmingham yahoos. 1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. Yahoo, a lout from the back-country, an ignoramus, a know-nothing. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iii. 83 You must not behave like a yahoo in my mathematical set. 1943 J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 23 May in Ancestral Voices (1975) 200 I took the young yahoo..to the station. 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 May 6/4 A Brisbane boat owner has complained that ‘young yahoos’ are stripping cars left at bayside boat ramps. 1977 New Yorker 20 June 56/2 Sarge Waller—who is, among other things, a professional riverman—later commented on Cook and Ulvi's journey and described them as ‘yahoos’. attributive.1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iv. 49 I told him, we had great Numbers [of Houyhnhnms]..[that] Yahoo-Servants were employed to rub their Skins smooth.1735 J. Swift Gulliver Introd. Let., in Wks. III. vi I must..confess, that..some Corruptions of my Yahoo Nature have revived in me.1751 T. Warton New-Market 14 That hated animal, a Yahoo-Squire.1888 F. Harrison in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 681 Pessimist pictures of human destiny and Ya-hoo theories of human life. 2. = wild man n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang) satyra1398 orangutan1699 man of the woods1755 pongo1775 orang1778 yahooc1790 wild man1791 mias1840 red orang1840 outang1869 lesser orang-utan1903 c1790 During the Fair to be seen Alive in J. A. Ferguson Bibliogr. Austral. (1986) I. 43 Two surprising large Yohoes; or, wild men of the woods. 1814 Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 22 Apr. 3/5 Just arrived, and to be seen in a commodious booth, in the Crown and Anchor Yard, Lincoln... The Great Yahoo, or Wild Man of the Woods. 3. Australian. [Perhaps a different word.] A probably mythical creature resembling a big hairy man, said to haunt eastern Australia. Cf. yowie n.² ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > miscellaneous hairy and man-like yahoo1842 sasquatch1929 Bigfoot1958 yowie1976 1842 in G. C. Joyner Hairy Man South Eastern Austral. (1977) 5 A contested point has long existed among Australian naturalists whether or not such an animal as the Yahoo existed. 1844 L. A. Meredith Notes & Sketches New S. Wales x. 95 They have an evil spirit, which causes them great terror, whom they call ‘Yahoo’, or ‘Devil-devil.’ 1876 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 4 Nov. 729 For many years past it had been believed by the settlers of that wild part of the country, that the Walla Walla scrub was inhabited by a monster called ‘the hairy man of the wood’, or what all the blacks stand so much in dread of—the Yahoo. 1937 Mankind II. iv. 91 [J.N., a Kumtangerai, told me that big hairy men lived in the scrub at Nana Glen (North Coast, N.S.W.), and were called by the native Jarrā-wahu.] 1937 Mankind II. iv. 91 In the Mudgee district..a scrubby place was reputed to be the abode of a ‘Yahu’, and a resident in the Maitland district told me a ‘Yahu’ was reputed to live in thick scrub there. Each said he was a big hairy man. Derivatives yaˈhoo v. (intransitive) to behave like a yahoo.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > be loutish [verb (intransitive)] yahoo1868 hoon1983 1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead iii. v A dam low-bred lot, yahooin' all over the place. yaˈhoodom n. the realm of yahoos, yahoos collectively; also, behaviour characteristic of a yahoo. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > miscellaneous hairy and man-like > behaviour characteristic of yahoodom1890 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] > collectively yahoodom1890 muckerdom1893 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person > collective, condition, or estate of clownship1606 boorish1794 yahoodom1890 muckerdom1893 ockerdom1974 1890 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) vii. 162 The grotesque Yahoodom of nipping pieces off a half-presented foetus and slamming it into the market. 1906 Sun (N.Y.) 17 Aug. 4/1 One dictum in a Judge's mouth can..unleash all Yahoodom. yaˈhooish adj. resembling or characteristic of a yahoo.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [adjective] carterly1519 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 loutlike1567 swaddish1593 tartarous1602 cluster-fisted1611 cloddish1844 yahooish1885 muckerish1900 Neanderthal1928 1885 D. Masson Carlyle i. 37 The infrahuman, the Yahooish, the diabolic. yaˈhooism n. style or quality characteristic or suggestive of a yahoo. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour villainyc1340 churlhood1382 rudenessc1405 boistousness1526 uplandishness1530 rusticity1531 coarseness1541 loutishnessa1556 grossness1563 boorishness1570 rusticality1572 clownishness1576 bouerie1577 roughness1581 clownery1589 swinishness1591 peasantryc1592 inurbanity1598 community1600 rusticalnessa1603 clownagea1637 wildness1639 vulgarness1642 unpolishedness1652 brutism1687 mismanners1697 unpoliteness1700 brutality1709 mechanicism1710 indelicacy1712 untameness1727 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 shag1785 piggishness1796 cubbishness1828 sylvanity1832 rusticness1838 plebeianness1840 swainishness1854 baboonery1857 yahooism1862 slanginess1865 bucolicism1879 vulgarianism1920 outbackery1961 yobbishness1969 ockerism1974 blokeishness1989 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] > quality or condition of loutishnessa1556 yahooism1862 muckerism1900 1862 Rossetti in Fraser's Mag. July 70 Those ‘yahooisms’ are degrading in art. 1901 Speaker 5 Jan. 374/1 In the ‘Scotsman’ we have Yahooism militant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yahooint. Brit. /jɑːˈhuː/, /jəˈhuː/, U.S. /jɑˈhu/ Etymology: Probably echoic. Compare yahoo n. An exclamation of excitement, exultation, or delight. Cf. yo-ho int. and n., yoo-hoo int.In some cases supposedly characteristic of cowboys, esp. when executing daring feats on horseback, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > exclamation of excitement [interjection] oh God1340 good Godc1595 woo-hoo1697 my God1812 whee1920 cowabunga1954 yipes1955 phwoar?1976 yahoo1976 wahey1979 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > exclamation of joy or delight [interjection] cock-a-hoop1568 woo-hoo1697 joy1719 glory1816 whizzo1905 whee1920 hot diggety1924 ziggety1924 whacko1941 yeehaw1941 zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945 cowabunga1954 yay1963 yahoo1976 wahey1979 1976 F. A. Hoffmann in V. Randolph Pissing in Snow lvi. 85 (note) The woman riding behind an Indian..yells ‘Yahoo’ when she grabs the saddle horn to mount and dismount. 1976 Beano 3 Jan. 6/2 Yahoo! I've won first prize in a crossword competition run by a lemonade company! 1986 More (N.Z.) Feb. 47/3 Isn't it great? Fancy getting 180 bucks a week... Yahoo! 1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 June 12/3 He had heard a man yell ‘yahoo’ and saw him hanging halfway out the back window of a vehicle travelling down the steep hill. 1989 Funny Fortn. 21 Oct. 7 Yahoo! My plan worked! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1726int.1976
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yahoon.

Derivatives

yahooint.