yahoo

English Online Dictionary. What means yahoo‎? What does yahoo mean?

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑːhuː/
• Rhymes: -ɑːhu

Noun

yahoo (plural yahoos)

1. (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
2. (cryptozoology) 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.

Synonyms

• (a rough, coarse, or uncouth person): yokel, lout

Derived terms

• Netanyahoo

Translations

Etymology 2

Expressive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jəˈhuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Interjection

yahoo

1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
2. A battle cry.

Translations

Verb

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To give a cry of yahoo.

Etymology 3

From Yahoo!.

Alternative forms

• Yahoo

Verb

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

1. (Internet, informal, transitive, intransitive) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.

References

Anagrams

• ooyah