Yahoo
hu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhu 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.
Origin:
coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Related forms
ya·hoo·ism, noun
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| —n , pl -hoos | |
| a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person | |
| [C18: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)] | |
| ya'hooism | |
| —n | |
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Yahoo
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
yahoo
"a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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yahoo definition[ˈjɑhu]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Yahoo definition
World-Wide WebYet Another Hierarchical Officious/Obstreperous/Odiferous/Organized Oracle.
(Or a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of man, or an uncouth or rowdy person).
Probably the biggest hierarchical index of the World-Wide Web. Originally at Stanford University, Yahoo moved to its own site in April 1995. It allows you to move up and down the heirarchy, to search it and to suggest additions. It also features "What's New", "What's Popular", "What's Cool" and a random link.
(http://yahoo.com/).
(1995-04-05)
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