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yahoo

1

[ yah-hoo ]

interjection

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


Yahoo

2

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

noun

, plural Ya·hoos.
  1. (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.
  2. (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
  3. (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.

yahoo

/ jəˈhuː /

noun

  1. a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • yaˈhooism, noun
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Other Words From

  • yahoo·ism noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of yahoo1

First recorded in 1975–80; of imitative origin

Origin of yahoo2

Coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of yahoo1

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

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.

From Digiday

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.

From Fortune

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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