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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ya•hoo /ˈyɑhu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhu/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -hoos. - an uncultivated, bad-mannered, boorish person;
a lout.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: yahoo /jəˈhuː/ n ( pl -hoos)- a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
Etymology: 18th Century: from the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)yaˈhooism n Ya•hoo (yä′ho̅o̅, yā′-, yä ho̅o̅′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -hoos. - Literature(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- (l.c.) an uncultivated or boorish person;
lout;
philistine;
yokel. - (l.c.) a coarse or brutish person.
- coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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