different between yahoo vs yazoo

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

Named after the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi with this characteristic.

Noun

yazoo (plural yazoos)

1. (US) A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).

See also

• Yazoo land scandal