Definition of YAHOO

yahoo

Meanings

Plural: yahoos

Noun

  • 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.

Origin / Etymology

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.

Scrabble Score: 11

yahoo is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
yahoo is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
yahoo is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

yahoo is a valid Words With Friends word