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Definition: Yahoo |
YahooNoun1. Not very intelligent or interested in culture. 2. One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yahoo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Yahoo |
Literature | Yahoo A savage; a very ill-mannered person. In Gulliver's Travels the Yahoos are described as brutes with human forms and vicious propensities. They are subject to the Houyhnhnms, or horses with human reason. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about characters in Gulliver's Travels. For the web portal and search engine of similar name, see Yahoo.In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a yahoo is a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of the Houyhnhnms far preferable.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yahoo."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client provided by Yahoo. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail.
External Links
- Yahoo! Messenger (messenger.yahoo.com)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yahoo! Messenger."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
YAHOO | English | Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: YahooSynonyms: bumpkin (n), chawbacon (n), hayseed (n), hick (n), rube (n), yokel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yahoo |
| Specialty definitions using "yahoo": Artificial Life ♦ subject index ♦ targeted bannerspace. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yahoo. (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) That's a good yahoo, son. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) The Who will be playing tonight at Springfield's historic Yahoo Search Engine Arena (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Yahoo! I'm comfortably well off. (Ali Baba Bunny; writing credit: Michael Maltese) Yahoo for me. Yahoo for school (Billy Madison ; writing credit: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler) | |
Lyrics | Check it out at Yahoo! Mail (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer) Yahoo! ("Celebration"; performing artist: Kool & The Gang) Yahoo! This is your celebration ("Celebration"; performing artist: Kool & The Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Year of the Yahoo! (1972) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Yahoo!!!! - hang on for a "slight bank" Taken from cockpit of Coast Guard PBY. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Yahoo; cowboy; cattle; horse; horseback riding; horseback; cows; beef; ranch; ranchers. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | While Yahoo Japan and the other top 2 slightly decreased their shares from the previous year, LYCOS Japan, excite Japan and FreshEye and MSN Search increased their shares. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | AltaVista leads Yahoo, Austronaut, Google and Lycos as the most popular search-engines. (references) |
Uae | In 1999, Dubai announced a US $ 200 million Dubai Internet City (DIC), the world's first free trade zone focused predominantly on e-business and information technology . As of July 2001, major global internet-focused companies like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Yahoo have moved to DIC. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Yahoo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Yahoo" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Interjection | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Yahoo Japan Corporation | USA | Yahoo! Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
yahoo | 857,474 | sbc yahoo | 4,350 |
yahoo email | 214,162 | yahoo en espanol | 4,267 |
yahoo game | 91,162 | launch yahoo | 3,540 |
yahoo chat | 31,652 | yahoo chat room | 3,293 |
yahoo map | 29,545 | yahoo mail check | 3,236 |
yahoo group | 28,121 | member yahoo | 3,165 |
yahoo messenger | 24,002 | yahoo en español | 3,129 |
yahoo finance | 12,204 | yahoo travel | 2,866 |
yahoo profile | 12,019 | yahoo movie | 2,613 |
yahoo personals | 10,092 | yahoo search engine | 2,591 |
yahoo music | 9,459 | yahoo weather | 2,518 |
yahoo pool | 7,766 | yahoo games.com | 2,493 |
yahoo yellow page | 7,251 | yahoo.com mail | 2,470 |
yahoo greeting | 6,580 | yahoo people search | 2,405 |
yahoo japan | 6,084 | yahoo sports | 2,373 |
yahoo store | 5,688 | yahoo instant messenger | 2,024 |
search yahoo | 5,065 | yahoo auction | 2,017 |
yahoo canada | 4,944 | yahoo news | 1,939 |
member directory yahoo | 4,861 | my yahoo mail | 1,865 |
yahoo fantasy baseball | 4,751 | yahoo driving direction | 1,860 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "yahoo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ألياه واحد من جنس البهائم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скот, дивеч (chase, game). (various references) | |
Czech | podlý èlovìk. (various references) | |
French | rustre, butor. (various references) | |
German | Saukerl (bastard, hog, sod). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jehu. (various references) | |
Italian | mascalzone (blackguard, cad, rascal, rogue, rotter, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, villain). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yahooay.(various references) | |
Romanian | om grosolan, brutã (beast, brute, savage). (various references) | |
Russian | ура (cheers, hoorah, hooray, hurrah, hurray, rah, yahoos, yippee), иеху, деревенщина (bumpkin, churl, joskin, loon, lout, redneck, rube, yokel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prostak (bounder, chuff, hayseed, patsy, villain, vulgarian), jahu. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaba adam (backwoodsman, bear, boor, cad, caveman, churl, clown, lout, mucker), insan azmanı (spanker), hayvan gibi tip, hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy), cahil (benighted, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unilluminated, uninformed, unknowing, unlearned, unlettered, unread, untutored). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | селюк (boor, bush-whacker, chuff, churl, clown, gawky, red-neck, rustic, yokel), тварюка (snake). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người có thú tính. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yahoo": yahooism, yahooisms, yahoos. (additional references) | |
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"Yahoo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ayrhoh, Dahouk, Dyakovo, Eeaahoo, Mahboob, tahoo, yaahoo, Yahad, yaho, yahox, yano, yao, yaog, yaol, Yaou, Yaroo, yayo, yazoo, yeahoo, Yohko, yoho, yqhoo, yuhoo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "yahoo" (pronounced 'Ya"hoo'): Boohoo, Mahoohoo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-o-o-y" | |
-1 letter: ahoy, hoya. | |
-2 letters: hao, hay, hoy, oho, ooh, yah. | |
-3 letters: ah, ay, ha, ho, oh, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: hooray, yahoos. | |
+2 letters: hoorays. | |
+3 letters: apophony, babyhood, ballyhoo, hologamy, homogamy, honorary, hoorayed, hyponoia, ladyhood, omophagy, soothsay, yahooism. | |
+4 letters: anthology, babyhoods, ballyhoos, cacophony, chocolaty, foolhardy, hagiology, haplology, homoplasy, honorably, hooraying, hortatory, hydrozoan, hyponoias, hypotonia, ladyhoods, logomachy, monophagy, orography, pathology, photoplay, soothsays, taphonomy, yahooisms. | |
+5 letters: archeology, autotrophy, auxotrophy, ballyhooed, choanocyte, chocolatey, coprophagy, graphology, hematology, holography, homeopathy, honorarily, hootenanny, hormonally, hydrozoans, hypotonias, mythopoeia, nomography, ochlocracy, oligophagy, oropharynx, osteopathy, photoplays, roadworthy, schoolyard, scyphozoan, sociopathy, sonography, soothsayer, tomography, topography, yarborough. | |
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