yahoo
/ˈjɑːhuː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
intj
Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
intj
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.
noun
One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
name
Alternative form of Yahoo!.
Example Sentences
- "Triple Threat Triad? I beat up some of those yahoos when I got into town."
- "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."
- ""Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!""
- "Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!"
- "In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?)."
- "I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]"