Yahoo Definition

yäho͝o, yā-

yahoos

noun

yahoos

In Swift's Gulliver's Travels, any of a race of brutish, degraded creatures subject to the Houyhnhnms and having the form and all the vices of man.

Webster's New World

A person who is variously thought of as being coarse, uneducated, unrefined, anti-intellectual, crudely materialistic, etc.

Webster's New World

(informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.

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A derogatory term for a white person from the Confederate South (i.e., United States).

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(cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

1835: The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit. "” James Holman, Travels, 1835 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, above)

1985: Yahoos in the Bahamas "” title of paper by Michael Raynal, Cryptozoology, volume 4, 1985

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Synonyms:

interjection

Used to express joy, delight, triumph, etc. with great excitement.

Webster's New World

An exclamation of joy.

Wiktionary

A battle cry.

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Other Word Forms of Yahoo

Noun

Singular:

yahoo

Plural:

yahoos

Origin of Yahoo

The Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report (quote below), since the sound "H" does not occur in aboriginal languages, only in words learnt or adopted from Europeans. (Reference: Bunyips and Bigfoots, Malcolm Smith, Millenium Books, 1996, ISBN 1-86429-081-1.)

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From Yahoo , member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: the name of a race of brutes.

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Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

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Imitative

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Yahoo!

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