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used to express excitement, joy, or exhilaration
a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
a crude, loud, aggressive, or loutish person
What is the origin of the term "yahoo" and how is it used?
"Yahoo" is an English slang term that dates back to the early 18th century, popularized by Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), where Yahoos are brutish, uncivilized creatures. The word came to describe a crude, loud, aggressive, or loutish person, drawing on the novel's metaphor of animalistic behavior. It is used in informal speech and writing, often humorously or disparagingly. The term is mildly to moderately derogatory, emphasizing boorishness or lack of refinement rather than being deeply offensive.
