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Where did the word "Yahoo" came from?
Who invented it and what does it mean?
1 Answer
- amalia372005Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
yahoo
n 1: 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 Swift's Gulliver's Travels [syn: Yahoo]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.]