Yahoos
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from Merriam-Webster:
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We know exactly how old "yahoo" is because its debut in print also marked its entrance
into the English language as a whole. "Yahoo" began life as a made-up word invented by
Jonathan Swift in his book
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<i>Gulliver's Travels</i>
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, which was published in 1726. The Yahoos were a race of brutes, with the form and vices
of humans, encountered by Gulliver in his fourth and final voyage. They represented
Swift's view of mankind at its lowest. It is not surprising, then, that "yahoo" came to be
applied to any actual human who was particularly unpleasant or unintelligent. Yahoos were
controlled by the intelligent and virtuous Houyhnhnms, a word which apparently did not
catch people's fancy as "yahoo" did.
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