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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
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
yahoo [ˈjɑhu]

  1. n.
    a rustic oaf; an uncouth jerk. : Ask that yahoo to close the door after him.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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
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