different between yahoo vs aol

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

Amis

Noun

aol

1. bamboo

References

• 2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (?????????) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish áel (“lime, chalk”).

Noun

aol m (genitive singular aoil, nominative plural aolta)

1. lime (inorganic material containing calcium)
   1. (literary, in compounds as a pseudo-prefix) lime-white
2. whitewash (lime and water mixture)

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

aol (present analytic aolann, future analytic aolfaidh, verbal noun aoladh, past participle aolta)

1. (transitive) lime, whitewash
2. (intransitive) whiten, grow white

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• aolaigh

Mutation

Further reading

• "aol" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 áel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “aol” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “aol” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Maranao

Verb

aol

1. to weave

Derived terms

• inaol

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya