| 单词 | yahoo |
| 释义 | yahoo (once / 151530 pages) n Have you ever heard people talk insultingly about uneducated, uncultured country folks? They probably referred to them as yahoos. If someone calls you a yahoo, it's definitely an insult. Yahoos are thought to have very little education and culture. People think of yahoos as folks who were raised in a barn — maybe literally. A yahoo can also be called a bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel, or hillbilly. You can't really be a yahoo if you're from a big city. So if you want to insult someone from New York, you'll need to find a different word. WORD FAMILYyahoo: yahoos USAGE EXAMPLESPainting a picture of a reactionary and racist yahoo America, they could smear Merkel as a U.S. poodle and win a parliamentary majority. Washington Post(Sep 29, 2016) I guess it’s unsurprising that yahoos have threatened the 49ers quarterback for his peaceful protests. Washington Times(Sep 21, 2016) “He looked at me like a hog staring at a wristwatch. He was like, ‘Have I trusted my career to this yahoo’? Seattle Times(Aug 07, 2016) n a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture Syn|Hyper bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel rustic an unsophisticated country person Yahoo (once / 5591 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY Yahoo: Yahoos USAGE EXAMPLESIf your Yahoo account password was the same as ones you used elsewhere, those accounts were vulnerable, too. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) A recent example is Yahoo’s disclosure that in 2013 it was hacked and lost data on about 1 billion users. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) Yahoo executives say the core business remains strong. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) 1 n a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance 2Exp search engine a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) n one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift Exp character, fictional character, fictitious character an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) |
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