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ya·hoo  (yäh, y-)
n. pl. ya·hoos
A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.
[From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.]
yahoo·ism n.
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
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Noun1.yahoo - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in cultureyahoo - 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
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)
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