yahoo

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual. derogatory
  2. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To give a cry of yahoo. informal,intransitive,transitive
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo. alt-of
    — Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!
感叹词 intj.
  1. Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
    — "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"
  2. Battle cry.

词形变化

yahoos plural yahoos present,singular,third-person yahooing participle,present yahooed participle,past yahooed past yahoos present,singular,third-person yahooing participle,present yahooed participle,past yahooed past

词汇关系

衍生词
Netanyahoo Yahoo!
并列词
Houyhnhnm

词源

词源 1
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
词源 2
Expressive.
词源 3
From Yahoo!.
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