Anybody know? Anybody?
2007-08-24 15:37:38 · 13 answers · asked by Eisbär 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
And I don't mean the website.
2007-08-24 15:39:05 · update #1
Use it in a sentence too if you can.
2007-08-24 15:43:40 · update #2
How about this use of the word then: "There sure are a lot of yahoos in the politics section."
2007-08-24 15:53:39 · update #3
Yahoo: 1 |ˈyäˌhoō; yäˈhoō|
noun informal a rude, noisy, or violent person.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from the name of an imaginary race of brutish creatures in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
Yahoo 2 |yäˈhoō|
exclamation expressing great joy or excitement : yahoo—my plan worked!
ORIGIN natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the 1970s.
hope that answers your question.
2007-08-24 15:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
'yahoo' is a word invented by Jonathan Swift for "Gulliver's Travels". in "Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms" (which nobody ever reads), Gulliver encounters intelligent talking horses called Houyhnhnms, and filthy, vulgar, debased human-like beings called Yahoos. the book being a satire, Swift intended the Yahoos to represent what he thought of the human race in general ... uncivilized brutes.
i laugh every time i come to Yahoo!
2007-08-24 22:46:17 · answer #2 · answered by cryptic_non_sequitur 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dictionary
yahoo 1 |ËyäËhoÅ; yäËhoÅ| noun informal a rude, noisy, or violent person. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from the name of an imaginary race of brutish creatures in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).yahoo 2 |yäËhoÅ| exclamation expressing great joy or excitement : yahoo—my plan worked! ORIGIN natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the 1970s.
Thesaurus
yahoo noun informal her brother married into a family of yahoos redneck, boor, lout, oaf; barbarian, Neanderthal, brute, thug; informal clod, roughneck. exclamation Yahoo! We won! wahoo, yippee, hooray, hurrah, hallelujah, bravo, hot dog, whoopee, yay, yee-haw.
2007-08-25 01:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by Janelle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of you are confusing the chocolate drink Yoohoo with Yahoo. Not the same.
http://www.sodaking.com/images/yoohoo.m.jpg
2007-08-24 23:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Yahoo is essentially a crazy person, like me!
2007-08-24 22:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by Redeemer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo is a drink that they would drink on the show on Nick called "Hey Arnold!".
2007-08-24 22:40:19 · answer #6 · answered by Coll C 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I like Aimee, she has a nice classical answer
2007-08-24 22:43:48 · answer #7 · answered by Paladin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yahoo is a drink
i think its a alcoholic drink though
so i cant drink it but you may if ur 21
2007-08-24 22:48:17 · answer #8 · answered by SEXYMAN!!! 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a website.
Do I win a cookie?
2007-08-25 02:29:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
from spanish yuju... a exclamation of feasting and happiness.
2007-08-24 23:14:38 · answer #10 · answered by Ricochet 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋