2006-07-13 17:03:15 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
It's an expression of exitement. Yaaaaahoooooo!
2006-07-13 17:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Oxford English Dictionary lists three definitions: a "human being of a degraded or bestial type" (based on the Yahoos of Gulliver's Travels); a mythical manlike creature of eastern Australia; and an "exclamation of excitement, exultation, or delight" loosely associated with cowboys. These days I suspect people are far more familiar with the Yahoo website, and maybe folks will eventually talk about a web search engine as "a yahoo" the way they talk about kleenexes and xeroxes -- but so far the only development like that I know is the verb "googling!"
2006-07-14 18:57:01 · answer #2 · answered by Melchior Ixnay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the story "Gulliver's Travels" a tribe of talking horses refer to men who are cave man like as "Yahoos"
2006-07-14 00:16:21 · answer #3 · answered by loxland 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a uncultured human from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
this came to mean same thing as redneck,
and then was adopted as website name for some weird reason.
2006-07-14 00:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u r from india u must be knowing its from one of the best songs of great actor shammi kapoor "yahoo! chahe koi mujhe jungli kahe"
2006-07-14 00:08:47 · answer #5 · answered by archi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
n. pl. ya·hoos
A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.
2006-07-14 01:45:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a distant relative of the unicorn and oddly enough, it's still around.
Sorry, couldn't resist as you posted this in mythology!
2006-07-14 00:06:34 · answer #7 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just the name of the website BOZO!
2006-07-14 00:06:21 · answer #8 · answered by Guy Who Brushes His Teeth* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 'YAHOO' It's an anamanapeia ( I think that is how you spell it...ex. bam, swish, boom, clang..etc)
2006-07-14 00:07:35 · answer #9 · answered by Liza 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agreed with what intelknight said
2006-07-14 00:08:31 · answer #10 · answered by Nonny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋