Yahoo? WC:505 “Yahoo” is a word that was used in the story Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift. The word was used as satire and hypocrisy of humankind. The story was published anonymously in 1726 because of the attack and vanity on contemporary courts, statesman and political parties. Nonetheless, the book became so imaginative and witty, that it became a favorite children’s book. The word yahoo was invented by Swift meaning human-like or degraded human inhabitants of the land of the Houynhnms in part IV of Gulliver’s Travels. The yahoos were mistaken by Gulliver as beasts because of their repulsive appearance. Gulliver later realized that humans and yahoos are the same, and starts calling all human beings yahoos. The first use of yahoo appears in “A Letter, from Captain Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson.” The term has come to refer to any kind of brute. In the early 1700s yah....

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