Yahoo
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See also: yahoo and Yahoo!
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. According to the Century Dictionary, " made name, prob meant to suggest disgust".
Noun
Yahoo (plural Yahoos)
- (fiction) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Relates Several Particulars of the Yahoos. ”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume II, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), pages 271–272:
- I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the company name Yahoo!; see more on origin there.
Noun
Yahoo (plural Yahoos)
- (informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.
- 1996, Newsweek, volume 127:
- But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval.
- 2002, Karen Angel, Inside Yahoo!: reinvention and the road ahead:
- Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn.
- 2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: how a cartoon masterpiece defined a generation:
- Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.
Verb
Yahoo (third-person singular simple present Yahoos, present participle Yahooing, simple past and past participle Yahooed)
- Alternative letter-case form of yahoo
- 2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29:
- I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.
- 2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives; (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23:
- We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.