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yahoo [ yah -hoo ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈyɑˈhu / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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interjection
(an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)
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Origin of yahoo First recorded in 1975–80; of imitative origin
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Yahoo
[ yah -hoo, yey -, yah-hoo ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈyɑ hu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhu / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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 Nagle’s work at Wing taps into her extensive experience working with public sector stakeholders at Google’s X Moonshot devision, as well as at Yahoo prior to that.
The move was notable as Verizon Media Native — renamed from Yahoo Gemini in 2018 — had primarily only served Verizon Media’s owned-and-operated properties.
This followed a decision by Yahoo to turn to Microsoft Ads for its search ads, severing a relationship that saw some Google search partner traffic coming from Yahoo .
Apparently, before Nigeria’s “Yahoo boys,” there was faxing fraud.
Some of the most obvious are Bing and Yahoo since they both have local business listings.
In 2005, when Alibaba was picking up momentum in its battle against eBay, Yahoo bought a 40 percent stake in the company.
As mentioned, Yahoo has a black stain on its collaboration and severe breach of privacy.
(Yahoo now refers to itself as a digital media company rather than a technology company).
Google and Yahoo are already among the largest media companies in the world.
Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?
And this man of complete self-command, who has every form of noble pride, gets cajoled like a twenty-year-old yahoo at college!
"Yahoo " is commonly said to have been coined by Swift, but there is a possibility that it was in slang use in his day.
As for Mr. Yahoo , she recoiled from him with horror at the very first glance.
Opening the drawing-room door, I perceived, as much to my disgust as astonishment—the Yahoo !
It reads like a filthy outpour of a Yahoo rather than the utterance of a sane and responsible man.
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British Dictionary definitions for yahoo
noun plural -hoos
a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
Derived forms of yahoo yahooism , noun Word Origin for yahoo C18: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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