英语词汇yahoo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

yahoo. Bestial or brutish people are called yahoos, after the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels, nause- ating hateful beasts in human form who prefer “nastiness and dirt.” Eric Partridge suggested that Swift may have coined the word after yah! and who?—“yah! being typical of coarse ignorance and brutality, and who? of defiance.” Other possi- bilities are (1) the name of “the Cariban tribe the Yahos, on the coast near the borderline of Brazil and French Guiana”; (2) “the name of a degraded East African tribe often men- tioned by early travelers”; and (3) “a learned pun by Swift on a Greek word sounding like yahoo that meant sleepy or dopey.”

词汇	yahoo
词源	yahoo. Bestial or brutish people are called yahoos, after the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels, nause- ating hateful beasts in human form who prefer “nastiness and dirt.” Eric Partridge suggested that Swift may have coined the word after yah! and who?—“yah! being typical of coarse ignorance and brutality, and who? of defiance.” Other possi- bilities are (1) the name of “the Cariban tribe the Yahos, on the coast near the borderline of Brazil and French Guiana”; (2) “the name of a degraded East African tribe often men- tioned by early travelers”; and (3) “a learned pun by Swift on a Greek word sounding like yahoo that meant sleepy or dopey.”
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