yahoo

ya·hoo  (yäh, y-)

n. pl. ya·hoos

A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.

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

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yahoo·ism n.

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yahoo [jəˈhuː]

n pl -hoos

a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person

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

yahooism  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	yahoo - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel rustic - an unsophisticated country person
	2.	Yahoo - one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
	3.	Yahoo - a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product

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yahoo

noun philistine, savage, lout, beast, barbarian, brute, rowdy, hoon (Austral. & N.Z.), roughneck (slang), boor, churl, yob or yobbo (Brit. slang) a typical City merchant banking yahoo

Translations

yahoo

A. [jɑːˈhuː] EXCL → ¡yupi!

B. [ˈjɑːhuː] N (Brit) → niñato/a m/f

yahoo [ˈjɑːhuː jɑːˈhuː jəˈhuː]

excl → youpi

n (British) → rustre mf

yahoo

n → Schwein nt (inf)