Added 1 October 2026
yahoo
/ˈjɑːhuː/ noun
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about yahoo at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.
- One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift.
- A widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance.
Origin
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
From Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA)