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Ya⋅hoo

  [yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo]
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–noun, plural -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)

Related forms:
ya⋅hoo⋅ism, noun
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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ya·hoo   (yä'hōō, yā'-)   
n.   pl. ya·hoos
A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.

[From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.]
ya'hoo·ism n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Yahoo

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.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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yahoo 
"a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Yahoo World-Wide Web
Yet 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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