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  1. www.dictionary.com › browse › yahoosYAHOOS Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Yahoos definition: . See examples of YAHOOS used in a sentence.

  2. www.collinsdictionary.com › us › dictionaryYAHOO definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary

    2 days ago · Yahoo in American English. (ˈjɑːhuː, ˈjei-, jɑːˈhuː) noun Word forms: plural -hoos. 1. (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. 2. (lc) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine. 3. (lc) a coarse or brutish person.

  3. www.britannica.com › dictionary › yahooYahoo Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    plural yahoos. Britannica Dictionary definition of YAHOO. [count] informal. : a person who is very rude, loud, or stupid. Some yahoo cut me off in traffic. A bunch of yahoos were making noise outside. YAHOO meaning: used to express excitement or joy.

  4. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryYAHOO | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    YAHOO meaning: 1. a rude, loud, unpleasant person, especially one who has little education 2. used to express…. Learn more.

  5. wordhistories.net › 2018/03/02 › yahoo-origina word invented by Jonathan Swift: ‘yahoo’ – word histories

    Mar 2, 2018 · The noun yahoo denotes a rude, noisy or violent person—cf. also bully. It was invented by the Irish satirist, poet and Anglican cleric Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) as the name of a race of brutish creatures resembling men, ruled by the houyhnhnms, described as horses endowed with reason, in Travels into several remote Nations of the World.

  6. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › yahoo_1yahoo noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes...

    Definition of yahoo noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yahoo_(Gulliver's_Travels)Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

    Yahoos are legendary human beings in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift. [1] Their behaviour and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. [1] The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver's Travels [2] and has since ...