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Yahoo vs Woohoo - What's the difference?

yahoo | woohoo |

As nouns the difference between yahoo and woohoo

is that 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 while woohoo is (zoology) the sailfish.

As an interjection woohoo is

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yahoo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • 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

    Synonyms

    * yokel, lout

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An exclamation of joy.
  • A battle cry.

    • woohoo

    English

    Alternative Forms

    * woo hoo

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • Woohoo! It's summer again!

    Synonyms

    * (expressing joy) hooray, yay, yahoo, yippee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) The sailfish.
    • (Webster 1913)