different between bing vs yahoo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).

Cf also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

Noun

bing (countable and uncountable, plural bings)

1. (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
3. (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
4. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).

Verb

bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)

1. (dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.

Alternative forms

• ping
• ding
• bong

Interjection

bing

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface

Etymology 4

Noun

bing (plural bings)

1. The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia
   • Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin

     Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.

   • Douglas Florian, 1994

     Bing Bang Boing

   • David Chase, 2003

     The Tao of Bada Bing

2. A sound made by a bounce
3. A bounce

Verb

bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)

1. Making the sound of a bounce
2. To bounce

See also

• ping
• ding
• boing
• bong
• bang
• bada bing bada boom

References

Anagrams

• GBNI, Gbin

Khumi Chin

Etymology

Akin to Burmese ????? (bhin:).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Noun

bing

1. opium

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 42

Mandarin

Romanization

bing

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bìng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bing f (genitive singular bingagh or bingey, plural bingaghyn)

1. committee
2. (law) jury

Derived terms

• bingagh
• co-ving
• fo-ving

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

bing

1. tuneful, musical, sweet
2. shrill

Derived terms

• kishtey bing (“dulcimer”)
• neuving
• ushag ving

Mutation

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural binger, definite plural bingene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by binge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural bingar, definite plural bingane)

1. alternative form of binge

Scots

Alternative forms

• byng

Etymology

From Old Norse bingr; cf. Middle English bynge (“a bin, enclosure, pen”).

Cf also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??/

Noun

bing (plural bings)

1. A man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
2. A heap or pile.
3. A small hill, usually manmade.

Verb

bing (third-person singular present bings, present participle bingin, past bingt, past participle bingt)

1. To pile up; to create a bing.

Yagara

Noun

bing

1. father

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pi???/
• Tone numbers: bing¹
• Hyphenation: bing

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *pli??? (“aquatic leech”). Cognate with Thai ???? (bpling), Lao ??? (p?ng), Lü ??? (?iing), Shan ???? (p?ng).

Noun

bing (old orthography bi?)

1. aquatic leech

Etymology 2

From Mandarin ? (b?ng).

Noun

bing (old orthography bi?)

1. soldier; army

English

Etymology 1

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??hu?/

Noun

yahoo (plural yahoos)

1. (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
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.

   • 1985, Michael Raynal, Yahoos in the Bahamas, Cryptozoology, volume 4:

Synonyms

• (a rough, coarse, or uncouth person): yokel, lout

Etymology 2

Expressive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??hu?/

Interjection

yahoo

1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
2. A battle cry.

Verb

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

1. To give a cry of "yahoo".
2. (Internet, informal) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
   • 2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones (?ISBN), page 46:

     I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.

   • 2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers (?ISBN)

     In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).

   • 2007, Tell

     Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!

References

Anagrams

• ooyah