yahoo
nominterjectionverbeverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈjɑːhuː//
- //jəˈhuː//
A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
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A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
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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.
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Étymologie
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
interjection
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Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"
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Battle cry.
Étymologie
Expressive.
verbe
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familierTo give a cry of yahoo.
verbe
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Variante de YahooAlternative letter-case form of Yahoo.
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 ?).
Étymologie
From Yahoo!.
Formes
- pluriel
- yahoos
- passé
- yahooed
- participe passé
- yahooed
- participe présent
- yahooing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- yahoos
yahoo · A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
Yahoo · One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men,…yak · An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar,…yakuza · A Japanese organized crime gang.