yahoo

FREQ #15633

n. 人面兽心的人, 乡愚, 粗汉

发音

US
其它
/ˈjɑːhuː/
/jəˈhuː/

词形变化

yahoos 复数 yahoos yahoos 三单 yahooing 现在分词 yahooed 过去式 yahooed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

    贬义
  2. 2.

    A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

    生物 动物学

    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.

v.
  1. 1.

    To give a cry of yahoo.

    非正式 不及物 及物
  2. 1.

    Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.

interj.
  1. 1.

    Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

    呀吼

  2. 2.

    Battle cry.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

hick rube bumpkin yokel chawbacon hayseed

上位词 1

rustic

相关短语

Yahoo boys Yahoo boy

词源

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

来源：wiktionary