yahoo
Plural: yahoos
Noun
- A coarse, uncouth, or brutish person.
- 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
- A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
- A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
Intj
- An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
- A battle cry.
Verb
- To give a cry of yahoo.
- Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.
Examples
- His opponent, a true YAHOO of Words With Friends etiquette, kept playing offensive words.
Origin / Etymology
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
Scrabble Score: 11
yahoo: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordyahoo: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
yahoo: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
yahoo: valid Words With Friends Word