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yahoo¹
- /ˈjɑːhuː/
Rhymes with -ɑːhu
Where it comes from
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
noun yahoos
- A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual. Triple Threat Triad? I beat up some of those yahoos when I got into town.
- 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
yahoo²
- /jəˈhuː/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Expressive.
interjection
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Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"
Similar: yay
- Battle cry.
verb yahoos · yahooing · yahooed
- To give a cry of yahoo.
yahoo³
Where it comes from
From Yahoo!.
verb yahoos · yahooing · yahooed
- Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!
Yahoo⁴
- /ˈjɑːhuː/
Where it comes from
Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. According to the Century Dictionary, "[a] made name, prob[ably] meant to suggest disgust".
noun Yahoos
- 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; […]
Yahoo⁵
- /ˈjɑːhuː/
Where it comes from
From the company name Yahoo!; see more on origin there.
proper noun
- Alternative form of Yahoo! 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 Yahoos
- An employee of the Internet company Yahoo! But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.
verb Yahoos · Yahooing · Yahooed
- To search using the Yahoo! search engine. I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: chawbacon, bumpkin, rube, hick, yokel, hayseed, brute, moron, lout, idiot, boor, derelict, hobo, hurrah, huzzah, vagrant
Translations
Talk about this word "yahoo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yahoo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. yahoo. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yahoo "yahoo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yahoo.Cite this
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title = {yahoo},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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