Ouch vs Yahoo - What's the difference?
ouch | yahoo |
An expression of one's own physical pain.
An expression in sympathy at another's pain.
A reply to an insult (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).
An expression of disappointment.
(slang) Expressing surprise at the high price of something.
A rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
A loud boisterous person.
(pejorative) A white person from the former Confederate States of America (i.e., Southern United States).
(cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
As nouns the difference between ouch and yahoo
is that ouch is while yahoo is (literature) one of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, that inhabit the same land as the civilized houyhnhnms or yahoo can be (informal) an employee of the internet company.As an interjection ouch
is an expression of one's own physical pain.ouch
English
Etymology 1
Interjection
(en interjection)- Ouch ! You stepped on my toe! That hurt!
- Ouch ! Her sunburn looks awful.
- Ouch . How could you say that?
- Ouch , I really wanted to do that.
- ''Ouch , one hundred thousand dollars for a car! I could never afford that!
Synonyms
* (in all of the above senses) ow, owie, youch, yow, yowchEtymology 2
Variant forms.yahoo
English
Noun
(en noun)- 1835: The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.'' — James Holman, ''Travels , 1835 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, above)
- 1985: Yahoos in the Bahamas'' — title of paper by Michael Raynal, ''Cryptozoology , volume 4, 1985