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Yahoo vs Yahooism - What's the difference?

yahoo | yahooism |

As nouns the difference between yahoo and yahooism

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 yahooism is the behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.

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.

    • yahooism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=James Traub, title=Who Put the ‘Cold’ in Cold War?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The yahooism he had always despised was suddenly yoked to an ideology he viewed as reckless. }}