Yahoo

//ˈjɑːhuː// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

    ""Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!""

  2. 2
    A battle cry.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Yahoo!. alt-of, alternative

    "That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day."

Noun
  1. 1
    A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual. derogatory
  2. 2
    One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.

    "I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]"

  3. 3
    An employee of the Internet company Yahoo! informal

    "But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval."

  4. 4
    a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture wordnet
  5. 5
    A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

    "1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit."

Verb
  1. 1
    To give a cry of yahoo. informal, intransitive, transitive
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo. alt-of

    "Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!"

  3. 3
    To search using the Yahoo! search engine. Internet, informal, intransitive, transitive

    "I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.

Etymology 2

Expressive.

Etymology 3

Expressive.

Etymology 4

From Yahoo!.

Etymology 5

Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. According to the Century Dictionary, "[a] made name, prob[ably] meant to suggest disgust".

Etymology 6

From the company name Yahoo!; see more on origin there.

Etymology 7

From the company name Yahoo!; see more on origin there.

Etymology 8

From the company name Yahoo!; see more on origin there.

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