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Origin of "Yee Haw"?

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Posted 08/30/04 - 12:31 PM:	#11
If I were to venture a wild guess, I'd say it started as "yea here". Another possibility is a variant of yahoo, which originated in Gulliver's Travels.
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Posted 10/30/09 - 03:59 PM: Subject: Origin of the word YeeHaw!	#12
Perhaps some Gaelic-speaking immigrant joyfully shouted from his window, "Oiche Nollaig! Oiche!" (Christmas Blessings! Blessings!) equivalent to Merry Christmas. The word Oiche is pronounced "EE-Ha". or for some other 'blessed event, like a birth or a discovery......

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Posted 11/04/09 - 12:39 PM:	#13
Funny and deliberate revival of a 5 year old topic - I feel like I have time traveled.
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