yahoo

[ yah-hoo ]

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interjection

(an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)

Origin of yahoo

First recorded in 1975–80; of imitative origin

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Other definitions for Yahoo (2 of 2)

Yahoo

[ yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo ]

noun,plural Ya·hoos.

(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
(lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.

(lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.

Origin of Yahoo

Coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Other words from Yahoo

ya·hoo·ism, noun

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How to use yahoo in a sentence

In 2005, when Alibaba was picking up momentum in its battle against eBay, yahoo bought a 40 percent stake in the company.
Alibaba’s Dark Side: Censoring Customers | Brendon Hong | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
As mentioned, yahoo has a black stain on its collaboration and severe breach of privacy.
Alibaba’s Dark Side: Censoring Customers | Brendon Hong | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
(yahoo now refers to itself as a digital media company rather than a technology company).
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay | Joel Kotkin | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Google and yahoo are already among the largest media companies in the world.
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay | Joel Kotkin | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?
Why Does My Kids’ Elementary School Need a Tank? | Andy Hinds | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

And this man of complete self-command, who has every form of noble pride, gets cajoled like a twenty-year-old yahoo at college!
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
"yahoo" is commonly said to have been coined by Swift, but there is a possibility that it was in slang use in his day.
The Word Hoosier; John Finley | Jacob Piatt Dunn
As for Mr. yahoo, she recoiled from him with horror at the very first glance.
Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) | Samuel Warren
Opening the drawing-room door, I perceived, as much to my disgust as astonishment—the yahoo!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 | Various
It reads like a filthy outpour of a yahoo rather than the utterance of a sane and responsible man.
About Ireland | E. Lynn Linton

British Dictionary definitions for yahoo

yahoo

/ (jəˈhuː) /

nounplural -hoos

a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person

Origin of yahoo

C18: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Derived forms of yahoo

yahooism, noun

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