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yahoo
1[ yah-hoo ]
interjection
- (an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)
Yahoo
2[ yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo ]
noun
- (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.
yahoo
/ jəˈhuː /
noun
- a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
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Derived Forms
- yaˈhooism, noun
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Other Words From
- yahoo·ism noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yahoo1
Origin of yahoo2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yahoo1
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Example Sentences
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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