Definitions for yahoo
ˈyɑ hu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhuya·hoo

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbaconnoun

   a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

2. Yahoonoun

   one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

3. Yahoonoun

   a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. yahoonoun

   A rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout.

2. yahoonoun

   A loud boisterous person.

3. yahoonoun

   A derogatory term for a white person from the Confederate South (i.e., United States).

4. yahoonoun

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

5. yahoointerjection

   An exclamation of joy.

6. yahoointerjection

   A battle cry.

7. Etymology: Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Yahoo

   Yahoo! (, styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications. It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, usage declined in the late 2000s as some services discontinued and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. yahoo

   Yahoo is a global Internet services company that provides a range of products and services including a web portal, search engine, email, directory, news, advertising and more. It was founded in 1994 by Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo. The company's name is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle." Yahoo was one of the pioneers and most popular destinations of the early Internet era in the 1990s but faced decline with the rise of competitors such as Google. As of 2021, Yahoo is owned by Apollo Global Management.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Yahoo

   A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person". American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. Yahoos were referred to in a letter sent by serial killer David Berkowitz to New York City police while committing the "Son of Sam" murders in 1976.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Yahoo

   ya-hōō′, n. a name given by Swift in Gulliver's Travels to a class of animals which have the forms of men but the understanding and passions of the lowest brutes: a despicable character.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Yahoo

   name of a race of brutes, subject to the Houyhuhnms (q. v.), in "Gulliver's Travels," with the form and all the vices of men.

Matched Categories

1. • Fictional Character
   • Rustic
   • Search Engine

How to pronounce yahoo?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say yahoo in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of yahoo in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of yahoo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of yahoo in a Sentence

1. Marissa Mayer:

   Separating our Alibaba stake from Yahoo's operating business is essential to maximizing value for our shareholders.

2. Erik Gordon:

   Verizon has always been the favorite because it has the largest potential synergies and therefore can pay the most, the price negotiations still can be tough because it also doesn't need Yahoo Japan. It can put its money into its AOL franchise.

3. Marni Walden:

   Yahoo gives us scale that is what is most critical here, we want to compete and that is the place we need to be.

4. Neil Doshi:

   This is absolutely a step in the right direction, we’d much rather see Yahoo either spin off or potentially sell the core and have a tax liability on a smaller piece than have it on the larger Alibaba piece.

5. Matt Stanley:

   Yahoo was great as an aggregator for all commodity participants so I think any cross-broking from one messenger platform may mean people use the old friend – the phone, so in some kind of ironic way, you may see stronger relationships formed now people have to interact the old-school way.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=yahoo
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yahoo
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=yahoo
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=yahoo
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Yahoo