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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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