different between yahoo vs oath

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English ?þ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?óytos (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ?tor (“use, employ, avail”), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

oath (plural oaths)

1. A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
   • 2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space (?ISBN):

     But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.

   • 2011, Mark Leyne, "The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

     There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.

2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.

3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. A curse, a curse word.
   • 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:

     The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]

Synonyms

• pledge, vow, avowal

Derived terms

Related terms

• bloody oath (Australian slang)
• fucking oath (Australian slang)

Translations

Verb

oath (third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed)

1. (archaic) To pledge.

Translations

Further reading

• oath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HATO, Thao, taho