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Eloi Tsabaoth

10:12 / 01.08.02

Does anyone know the origin of the phrase 'Yoink'? Did it originate in The Simpsons or did it come from something else? I must know.

rizla mission

10:33 / 01.08.02

Is that 'yoink', as in word that you say when grabbing/stealing/moving something in a comedic fashion?

I have absolutely no idea. Perhaps a variation of 'Zoink', which may in turn lead back to Shaggy's 'Zoiks!'..

Why don't pop culture academics stop debating obscure aspects of post-modernism and do their job by investigating things like this for us! Dammit.

grant

13:12 / 01.08.02

It has a *very* Three Stooges sound to it ("yoik!" is a common utterance), which would lead you back to Yiddish exclamations.

Cavatina

13:20 / 01.08.02

Um, isn't 'yoicks' used as a cry to urge on hounds in fox-hunting?

Re-Set

13:37 / 01.08.02

Would anyone agree tha "Yoink" is onomatapoetic? I don't beleive it originated with The Simpsons, and I doubt it's etymologyies could be truly traced, yet everyone seems to be familair with it....memetic or something.

Turk

19:50 / 01.08.02

It's routes lay in old Irish. Rather than 'cheers' they'd say 'yoink' when drinking in company. The term survived in certain Irish-American communities. The ethnic disharmony in some of those areas meant it was hijacked and suggested to be utterance used by thieves by those not fond of the Irish.
It's quite a slur everytime you use it.

Kit-Cat Club

21:32 / 01.08.02

Certainly is in Wodehouse, isn't it... 'Yoicks! Tally Ho!' cried my Aunt Agatha, as the old mastodon whumpfled his way ove to the cow-creamer cabinet' and so on.

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