Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name given by Swift, in “Gulliver's Travels,” to a feigned race of brutes having the form of man and all his degrading passions. They are placed in contrast with the Houyhnhnms, or horses endowed with reason, the whole being designed as a satire on the human race.
- n. [lowercase] A rough, brutal, uncouth character.
- n. [lowercase] A greenhorn; a back-country lout.
Wiktionary
- n. A rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
- n. A loud boisterous person.
- n. A derogatory term for a white person from the Confederate South (i.e., United States).
- n. cryptozoology A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
- interj. An exclamation of joy.
- interj. A battle cry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's “Gulliver's Travels.” See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
- n. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.
- n. United States A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
- n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- n. a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
Etymologies
- From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I know that some yahoo extentions do have free POP service like @yahoo.fr users.”
“Yahoo already has the ability to handle yahoo ids that aren't @yahoo.com addresses as they do this for residential dsl customers.”
“Under the "ADDRESS" field (which should be the 2nd one) where it says: "example@yahoo.com" just put in your yahoo id WITHOUT the "@yahoo. com" part.”
“If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com”
“If this yahoo is a Republican at heart, I'm glad he's not posing anymore.”
“You watch, Democrats, you keep making this guy the center story, and not only do the corrupt insurance companies win a sidetracked debate, but this yahoo is going to be the Republican nominee for president in '12.”
“April 02, 2009 at 2: 14 AM repeat after me: yahoo is dead! perryizgr8”
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“In addition it also pulls the images from the main yahoo weather page that represents the weather, not the ones in the rss feed and caches them locally.”
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“The only money I have ever given yahoo is for my pro account at Flickr.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yahoo’.
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cricket
everything cricket
backlift, bail, batsman, batsmen, batswoman, batswomen, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, ne'er-do-well, cad, thug, churl, boor, hooligan, bastard, slubberdegullion, dastard, tosspot and 85 more...
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Words banned in the Irish parliament
According to the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, and other media, these words have been deemed "unparliamentary."
brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, rat, scumbag, scurrilous and 3 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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I HEART MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!
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Enter the Rustics
A fanfare for the Common Man. Words for rustics, yokels, and woolhats of all sorts.
woolhat, yokel, rustic, hucklebuck, hick, redneck, bogan, goober, hayseed, bumpkin, countryman, peasant and 70 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Words next
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for yahoo.
mollusque Citation at deracinated. Aug 16, 2008