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AWAD - yahoo

Today's word is yahoo. For noun: After Yahoos, a race of brutish creatures in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". Earliest documented use: 1751. For interjection: Apparently of echoic origin. Earliest documented use: 1976.

 

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Uploaded on March 4, 2021