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Date: 1700-1800
Origin: From the name of a race of human-like animals in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)

yahoo

2 noun
     
yahoo2 plural yahoos [countable]
old-fashioned someone who is rough, noisy, or rude:
a bunch of time-wasting yahoos
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