Yahooed
/ˈjæh.uːd/noun
Past tense of yahoo, meaning to shout or behave boisterously and uncouthly.
Did you know?English got *yahoo* from Jonathan Swift’s *Gulliver’s Travels* (1726), where the Yahoos are brutish humanoids, and the word later became a real insult and verb for rowdy behavior.
Etymological Timeline
1726
English
Yahoo
“A brutish, filthy humanoid creature in Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*.”
Late 18th Century
English
yahoo
“A coarse, boorish, uncivilized person.”
19th Century
English
yahoo
“A rowdy or boisterous person; to shout or act like one.”
Modern English
English
yahooed
“Shouted, yelled, or behaved in a boisterous, uncouth way.”
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