you know, like" look at them yahoo's"
2006-12-14 12:04:40 · 10 answers · asked by eprefugee 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Yahoo is not just an insult. Yahoo is also an expression of joy or excitement, such as, "Yahoo, I just found the answer to my question!"
From Wikipedia.org:
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", a web site featuring a directory of other sites, organized in a hierarchy (rather than a searchable index of pages). It was renamed "Yahoo!" shortly thereafter. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for this name, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." As the backronymed version of the name implies, it was not the first directory of its kind, but it was the first to become widely popular as "the" directory of the fledgling Web.
2006-12-14 12:20:17 · answer #1 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those aren't Yahoo's, they're yeahoo's. Like, "Look at them yeahoo's". We say it all the time in our little neck of the woods. Yahoo is what you say when you're happy. Yeahoo is what you say when Bubba and Darlene drive by in their tow truck on the way to town.
2006-12-14 20:07:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know yahoo to mean, eg "yahoo buckaroo" - a mix between hello and yippee.
2006-12-14 20:06:20 · answer #3 · answered by Aussie Chick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is a cry of exaltation. (Y-ah who) To be called a yayhoo would be an insult. (Y-aa who)
2006-12-14 20:09:35 · answer #4 · answered by maxinebootie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is also a cheer.
2006-12-14 20:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by dev 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Australia the saying is... ' Look at those YOBBO's'
yobbo
noun:- an uncouth person.
2006-12-14 20:21:15 · answer #6 · answered by aingelic1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its for the original adds where they say YAHOOOOOOOOO. It is also an expression of having fun. The cowboy version is YEEHAW!
2006-12-14 20:05:55 · answer #7 · answered by NOIZE 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cause it was an easy thing to remember
2006-12-14 20:07:11 · answer #8 · answered by Mysterious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you have to be a virgin to use the really effective search engines. And they're not free.
2006-12-14 20:10:42 · answer #9 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
haha
2006-12-14 20:05:49 · answer #10 · answered by tanj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋