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Ya·hoo 
[yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo] Pronunciation Key
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[yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo] Pronunciation Key –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)]
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ya·hoo·ism, noun
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| ya·hoo
(yä'hōō, yā'-) Pronunciation Key
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. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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"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 | |
noun | |
| 1. | a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel] |
| 2. | one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift |
| 3. | a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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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