yahoo

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yahoo - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  yahoo \ya"hoo\ (y[aum]"h[=oo]), n.
     1. One of a race of filthy brutes resembling men but subject
        to the Houyhnhnms in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in
        the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 + CM]
  
     2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     4. Someone who is not very intelligent or not interested in
        culture.
  
     Syn: yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.
          [WordNet 1.5] Yahweh
          Jahve
          Jahveh

yahoo - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  yahoo
      n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in
           culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed,
           bumpkin, chawbacon]
      2: one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the
         Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
      3: a widely used search engine for the web that finds
         information, news, images, products, finance

yahoo - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Yahoo
  
     <World-Wide Web> Yet Another Hierarchical
     Officious/Obstreperous/Odiferous/Organized Oracle.
  
     (Or a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
     who have the form and all the vices of man, or an uncouth or
     rowdy person).
  
     Probably the biggest hierarchical index of the World-Wide Web
     .  Originally at Stanford University, Yahoo moved to its
     own site in April 1995.  It allows you to move up and down the
     heirarchy, to search it and to suggest additions.  It also
     features "What's New", "What's Popular", "What's Cool" and a
     random link.
  
     (http://yahoo.com/).
  
     (1995-04-05)
  

yahoo - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  YAHOO
         Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle (WWW)