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Yahoo

Yahoo \Ya"hoo\, n.

  1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's ``Gulliver's Travels.'' See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

  2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

  3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yahoo

"a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." "A made name, prob. meant to suggest disgust" [Century Dictionary]. "Freq. in mod. use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout; a hooligan" [OED]. The internet search engine so called from 1994.

Wiktionary
yahoo

Etymology 1 n. (context literature English) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, that inhabit the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms. Etymology 2

n. (context informal English) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.

WordNet
yahoo
  1. n. not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]

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

Wikipedia
Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels)

Yahoos are legendary beings in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) 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.

Yahoo (disambiguation)

Yahoo!''' is an internet content provider.

Yahoo may also refer to: __NOTOC__

Yahoo (horse)

Yahoo (foaled 1981) was a National Hunt racehorse, who is best remembered for finishing second in the 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup to Desert Orchid.

Yahoo was successful on the amateur Point-to-Point circuit, winning at least eleven races. His biggest wins under National Hunt rules included the Rowland Meyrick Chase at Wetherby in 1987, and the Martell Cup at Aintree in 1989. His last race was a second place at Worcester in May 1994.

Yahoo (band)

Yahoo is a Brazilian rock band formed in 1988.

Usage examples of "yahoo".

The clowns carried Buffo round the ring and off, behind a section of high-stepping and contemptuous horses, who could spot a Yahoo when they saw one, while Buffo cursed the world and all who dwelled therein, to the uncomprehending delight of all observers.

Yahoo Betty Raye had not changed much from the last time they had seen her.

I said, thinking, what with grammasites, a minotaur, Yahoos and a million or two rabbits, life in the bestiary must be something of a handful.

The topmen were all extroverted Yahoos, and I had not been polite to them lately.

His identity as a reasonable, cleanly user of language blurs the boundary between Houyhnhnm and Yahoo on which Houyhnhnm culture depends.

The Yahoos, regarded as a distinct species, humanoid rather than equine, represent the irrational bestiality that the Houyhnhnms reject.

Although Houyhnhnms are and remain much better than European Yahoos, they are not immune to change, and that change takes place through their encounter with Gulliver.

There was precedent for what was happening to us, too, for I recalled that on the only occasion that Lemuel Gulliver permits himself to go skinny-dipping in the land of the Houyhnhnms, a female Yahoo throws herself lustfully into the water after him.

Yahoos que se los infieren, para simular que fue la reina la que los hizo.

I know it sounds cynical, but antismoking lobbyists are perhaps the most ineffectual bunch of yahoos who ever walked the face of the earth.

Manhattan knows, steel workers are yahoos, the loudest and lustiest of the boys in the building trade.

The mutilations and Indian crap were all designed to stir up Medicine Creek, get everyone talking about the curse, make us all look like a bunch of superstitious yahoos.

Geocities - a community of free hosted, ad-supported, Web sites purchased by Yahoo!

The Yahoos have state-of-the-art Solarian missiles and EW, and there are four of them.

Four Yahoos were all Silesians, which meant they were unlikely to see it that way.