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Their search engine is on par with ASK or yahoo, which isnt saying much.

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  1. noun A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.

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  • We are afraid that B——hath been guilty of that crime, that you (like a houyhnhnm) have treated him as a yahoo, and discarded him your service. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • Objective: Need site to achieve top 10 of google, yahoo, and msn (US SE) (8) Keywords: trampoline, trampolines, round trampolines, round trampoline, rectangle trampolines, rectangle trampoline, rectangular trampoline, rectangular trampolines. —  GetAFreelancer.com New Projects
  • Their search engine is on par with ASK or yahoo, which isnt saying much. —  Neowin.net / All
  • Is it true that yahoo is asking again our pass word and secret informations to keep our mail account alive.? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Just take google, yahoo, and amazon for example, they are stupid website names, yet remain the most popular sites on the internet. —  LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

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  1. A made name, prob. meant to suggest disgust; cf. yah, an interjection of disgust.
 

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