yahoo
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(derogatory)A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
- 2.
(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.
interjection
interjection- 1.
Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
- 2.
Battle cry.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(informal, intransitive, transitive)To give a cry of yahoo.
- 2.
(alt of)Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.
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From ''Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.