Meaning

2 senses

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

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  2. A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

More definitions
  • one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
  • a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
  • a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Examples

17 sentences

  1. It seems that the self-righteous yahoo is finally gone.

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  2. Yahoo! has a cluttered look.

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  3. Did you create a Yahoo ID?

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  4. Do you have a Yahoo ID?

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  5. I use Yahoo! for Internet searches.

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Translations

1 languages
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By meaning 1
rough person:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: yahoos
Singularyahoo
Pluralyahoos

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
a rough, coarse, or uncouth person:yokellout
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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