YAHOO

Yahoo

(noun) a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance

Yahoo

(noun) one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon

(noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

yahoo (plural yahoos)

(pejorative) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.

(cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Synonyms

• (a rough, coarse, or uncouth person): yokel, lout

Etymology 2

Expressive.

Interjection

yahoo

An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

A battle cry.

Verb

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

To give a cry of "yahoo".

(internet, informal) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.

Anagrams

• ooyah

Etymology 1

Noun

Yahoo (plural Yahoos)

(literature) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.

Etymology 2

From the company name.

Noun

Yahoo (plural Yahoos)

(informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.

Anagrams

• ooyah

Source: Wiktionary

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Ya"hoo, n.

1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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