YAHOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yahoo mean? 

• YAHOO (noun)
  The noun YAHOO has 3 senses:

1. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

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

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

  Familiarity information: YAHOO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YAHOO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bumpkin; chawbacon; hayseed; hick; rube; yahoo; yokel

Hypernyms ("yahoo" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

search engine (a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet))

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

 Context examples 

My master likewise mentioned another quality which his servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Fool! Imbecile! Yahoo!” I shouted, when I thought it was meet to arouse Maud; but this time I shouted in merriment as I danced about the beach, bareheaded, in mock despair.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)