 What's The Diff Between Wazoo & Yazoo?, Is it up one and out the other? |
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 Mar 24 2005, 07:26 PM
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The other day I overheard some use the phrase "out the yazoo". If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time I've ever heard that. I myself have used the phrase "out the wazoo" many times. But it also seems perfectly acceptable to reverse it and say "up the wazoo". Hopefully the latter is somewhat self explanatory. If not...take a guess...you're probably correct.
But "yazoo" now seems acceptable as a substitute. OR...it has an alternate meaning. I think it does...and I'd like to know. I'm appealing to anyone who might be able to shed some light on this recent development in my life. Oh, the term "kazoo" is also used in a similar fashion. It's certainly funnier. At least to my rather warped sense of being. But a kazoo is also an instrument of types. Though I suppose it could be played from either end...maybe that's where the term came from. I'll let the experts confer on this one... |
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Mar 24 2005, 09:42 PM
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 The Key of Joy is disobedience. Group: Established Members Posts: 2,093 Joined: 4-May 04 From: The UK of GB and NI. Member No.: 1,102 Gender: Male |
Yazoo is a type of premade milkshake type drink is it not?
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Mar 24 2005, 09:50 PM
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Nope, that's Yahoo. It's a drink as well as a term meaning 'someone of low intellegence'
 Gulliver's Travels.
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Mar 25 2005, 03:22 AM
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QUOTE (trunks_girl26 @ Mar 24 2005, 04:50 PM) Nope, that's Yahoo. It's a drink as well as a term meaning 'someone of low intellegence' Gulliver's Travels. As opposed to Yay-Hoo, which is either a troublesome person, or a redneck... 
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Mar 25 2005, 03:08 PM
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The Key of Joy is disobedience. Group: Established Members Posts: 2,093 Joined: 4-May 04 From: The UK of GB and NI. Member No.: 1,102 Gender: Male |
Are you in America by any chance? Because I'm fairly sure that there is a drink called Yazoo in England.
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Mar 25 2005, 04:55 PM
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 =^^= ~~ Group: Established Members Posts: 287 Joined: 17-March 05 From: West Virginia, USA Member No.: 1,690 Gender: Male |
Yoohoo is the chocolate drink which Ange is talking about. It's sort of like chocolate milk but it has a slightly different taste and a noticeably different viscosity/texture. I searched Yazoo online and it looks like it might be a similar product to the Yoohoo here in America.
As for semantic differences between yazoo and wazoo in phrases such as "up the ______", I don't believe I've ever heard "yazoo" used instead of "wazoo." If I have heard it, I understood the meaning and probably just coined it off on vernacular differences. I don't think they differ in meaning. -------------------- -Cerin
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Apr 9 2005, 12:55 PM
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 I pull the wings off god Group: Established Members Posts: 954 Joined: 5-October 04 From: My occiput. Member No.: 1,340 Gender: Male |
Yazoo was also a band in which Alison Moyet sang vocals.
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Apr 9 2005, 03:54 PM
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 Faeries don't bite we just nibble a bit! Group: Moderators Posts: 1,695 Joined: 16-August 03 From: A town called Malice, England, The world Member No.: 535 Gender: Female |
It IS yazoo in the UK for chocolate milk. Very yummy indeed
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Apr 10 2005, 12:04 AM
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 Transdimensional Traveler Group: Established Members Posts: 1,322 Joined: 20-August 04 From: Somewhere in the Ęther Member No.: 1,244 Gender: Secret |
this has absolutely nothing to do with this but....
HUZZAH!!!! had to do it.... Yoohoo is the greatest... Yazoo is ok.... -------------------- It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
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