If I say "I yahoo today", or "I possess an yahoo at home", or in the question "Do you yahoo?" etc. Do they mean something more?
How about if one says "it's very yahoo, you know". Does it have sense for ya?
Than you for the good answers,
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2006-09-01 10:29:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
"Yahoo" means "Yippie!" "Hooray!" or "Eureka!"
When I was taking Internet training in the mid 90s, the instructor told us about Search Engines, like Yahoo. She said it was called "Yahoo" because when you found what your were looking for you said "Yahoo!"
So, I don't know how your Yahoo phrases in your question fit in with my answer. But, there you have it!
yahoo!
2006-09-01 10:36:08 · answer #1 · answered by Malika 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While most commentators agree that Swift derived the name Houyhnhnm from an imitation of the whinny of a horse, no satisfactory source for Yahoo has been proposed. Numerous suggestions have been made, but none seems plausible." (Scriblerian) Some have suggested it refers to people of Nigeria, Japan or South America. A few theories have suggested a derivation from a few languages, and those ideas are included in this treatise. But no one has suggested that many of the suggestians are viable--together as a unit. What this essay proposes is that there are many linguistical sources involved--and they all make up personality facets of the Yahoos and the plot of the story. Gulliver himself has been described as an apt linguist, but it is obvious he is deliberately doing wordplay: a game for us to solve. I doubt if I found all the Yahoo words.
It is important to note that the first time that Gulliver first uses YAHOO, it is thus near the end of Chapter 1: "the Word YAHOO, which was repeated by each of them several times". Gulliver brings up this same idea three times again early in Ch. 2 and again in Ch. 3. This is his way of telling the readers that YAHOO-like words are involved. Here is a quote on repeating words: "In this preface Faulkner [an editor] refers to 'the Editor of this, and other Editions' published by him, and avers that Swift consented to the issuance of the edition of 1735 upon certain conditions: 'That the Editor should attend him early every morning, or when most convenient, to read to him, that the Sounds might strike the Ear, as well as the Sense the understanding, and had always two Men Servants present for this Purpose; and when he had any doubt, he would ask them the Meaning of what they heard; which, if they did not comprehend, he would alter and amend until they understood it perfectly well...'" [Arthur E. Case, Four Essays on Gulliver's Travels, p. 17]. There is a connection between the sounds and the hidden meanings! This vague passage is an example of Swift's love of mystification and is an instance of his style
2006-09-01 10:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Santo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's said that "Yahoo" is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Online Oracle", given that it started out as an index for all of the websites at the time. The Stanford students who created Yahoo! apparently insist that they got the name from Johnathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels. Yahoo!'s advertizing campaigns "verbalize" the word, as in "Do you yahoo?" meaning "Do you use Yahoo! [or Yahoo!'s features] regularly?"
Yahoo is also an interjection of excitement or joy, therefore in its verb form "to yahoo" is to shout excitedly or joyfully about something.
As a plural noun, Yahoo refers to anyone who is rough, rude and boisterous, especially lacking in intelligence or education, as in "What a bunch of time-wasting yahoos".
In the Wonderful World of Words, you can also "tailor" certain words to suit your speech. In this case, you can tell someone "So, yahoo me!" (instead of "So, sue me!"). If used as an adjective, you could use it to describe something that instills excitement or happiness in you (based on its noun meaning). You could use it as a euphemism, but I don't think telling someone to "yahoo off" will fit somehow.
2006-09-01 11:02:45 · answer #3 · answered by Companion Wulf 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only thing that yahoo means (aside from the internet) is a fictional animal in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon swift.
"Gulliver describes the Yahoos as “… deformed …. Their heads and breasts were covered with thick hair … but the rest of their bodies were bare …. They had no tails and often stood on their hind feet ….” Then he adds, “I never beheld in all my travels so disagreeable an animal.” The behavior of these animals is equally disgusting as Gulliver describes defending himself from them by drawing his sword and backing up to a tree for protection, but they then climb the tree and begin defecating on him. "
2006-09-01 10:38:15 · answer #4 · answered by donnamspeirs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo is a call that cowboys would holler. It carried well over distances and the sound of cattle hooves. It meant the same thing as "aloha"- basically hello, goodbye, nice to see you, lunch time, let go of that sheep, round up and head in, ect. It all depended on which sylabble was stressed and the time of day.
2006-09-01 10:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by sawtooth_honey 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-09-30 06:14:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
Though to my knowledge, yahoo can mean one of the two things:
1) A bestial person (name of a race of brutes)
2) An exclaimation of enjoyment
2006-09-01 10:36:58 · answer #7 · answered by LaLa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Yahoo!" All by itself is an expression that means "I'm very excited/happy." Similar to saying "Yippee! or Yea!" The online website uses their name as a verb. When they say do you Yahoo? It basically means "Do you use Yahoo.com?"
2006-09-01 10:51:09 · answer #8 · answered by xiorcalm 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the word as such is taken from jonathan swift's gulliver's travels. in that book, a yahoo is a feral and degenerate form of human being.
2006-09-01 10:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by nerdyhermione 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo mean Yah. Yah mean Yahweh or Jehova (YHWH).
Yahoo is a Jews God.
2006-09-01 10:58:00 · answer #10 · answered by svmoinesti 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋