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English Dictionary: yahoo	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for yahoo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yahoo n a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture Synonym(s): yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yahoo \Ya"hoo\, n. 1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's [bd]Gulliver's Travels.[b8] 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.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Yahoo Yet Another Hierarchical Officious/Obstreperous/Odiferous/Organized Oracle. (Or a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of man, or an uncouth or rowdy person). Probably the biggest hierarchical index of the {World-Wide Web}. Originally at {Stanford University}, Yahoo moved to its own site in April 1995. It allows you to move up and down the heirarchy, to search it and to suggest additions. It also features "What's New", "What's Popular", "What's Cool" and a random link. {Home (http://www.yahoo.com/)}. (1995-04-05)