yahoo

¹

[ yah-hoo ]

interjection

1. (an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)

Yahoo

²

[ yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo ]

noun

, plural Ya·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.

yahoo

/ jəˈhuː /

noun

1. a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person

Derived Forms

• yaˈhooism, noun

Other Words From

• yahoo·ism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of yahoo¹

First recorded in 1975–80; of imitative origin

Origin of yahoo²

Coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Word History and Origins

Origin of yahoo¹

C18: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Example Sentences

Nagle’s work at Wing taps into her extensive experience working with public sector stakeholders at Google’s X Moonshot devision, as well as at Yahoo prior to that.

From TechCrunch

The move was notable as Verizon Media Native — renamed from Yahoo Gemini in 2018 — had primarily only served Verizon Media’s owned-and-operated properties.

From Digiday

This followed a decision by Yahoo to turn to Microsoft Ads for its search ads, severing a relationship that saw some Google search partner traffic coming from Yahoo.

From Search Engine Land

Apparently, before Nigeria’s “Yahoo boys,” there was faxing fraud.

From Fortune

Some of the most obvious are Bing and Yahoo since they both have local business listings.

From Search Engine Watch

In 2005, when Alibaba was picking up momentum in its battle against eBay, Yahoo bought a 40 percent stake in the company.

From The Daily Beast

As mentioned, Yahoo has a black stain on its collaboration and severe breach of privacy.

From The Daily Beast

(Yahoo now refers to itself as a digital media company rather than a technology company).

From The Daily Beast

Google and Yahoo are already among the largest media companies in the world.

From The Daily Beast

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

From The Daily Beast

And this man of complete self-command, who has every form of noble pride, gets cajoled like a twenty-year-old yahoo at college!

From Project Gutenberg

"Yahoo" is commonly said to have been coined by Swift, but there is a possibility that it was in slang use in his day.

From Project Gutenberg

As for Mr. Yahoo, she recoiled from him with horror at the very first glance.

From Project Gutenberg

Opening the drawing-room door, I perceived, as much to my disgust as astonishment—the Yahoo!

From Project Gutenberg

It reads like a filthy outpour of a Yahoo rather than the utterance of a sane and responsible man.

From Project Gutenberg