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单词 yahoo
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
ya•hoo /ˈyɑhu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhu/USA pronunciation   n. [countable], pl. -hoos. 
  1. an uncultivated, bad-mannered, boorish person;
    a lout.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
yahoo /jəˈhuː/ n ( pl -hoos)
  1. a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
Etymology: 18th Century: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)

yaˈhooism n
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
Ya•hoo  (yäho̅o̅, yā-, yä ho̅o̅),USA pronunciation n., pl. -hoos. 
  1. Literature(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
  2. (l.c.) an uncultivated or boorish person;
    lout;
    philistine;
    yokel.
  3. (l.c.) a coarse or brutish person.
  • coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
yahoo•ism, n. 

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