2007-12-05 23:23:06 · 12 answers · asked by kekere 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Growing up we would refer to an obnoxious or uncouth person as a Yahoo. The quote and link below explain how YAHOO Corporation/website got it's name.
"The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2007-12-06 00:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by Helpfulhannah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's what the two fellas that started Yahoo figured they were, a couple of yahoo's, and that's the truth, it was a question on Jeopardy the other day! Yahoo is another version of a red neck country boy,but a smart one.
2007-12-06 07:43:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you or Yippee!
Do you know what the dictionary says? It's really a crack up. 1) A member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels who have the form and the the vices of man 2) A boorish, crass or stupid person.
Are you #1 or #2?
2007-12-06 07:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by Snoot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the company Yahoo, it stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
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2007-12-06 07:26:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Web directory created by a couple of guys from Stanford who now have more money than the entire state of Arkansas. Rumor has it they own one business suit between them. Their site is constantly updated and provides an easy way of finding almost any Web page. Check it our for yourself at www. ...
2007-12-06 07:32:35 · answer #5 · answered by Alicia Christina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A crude and wild person. The term was first used by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" to refer to a race of such people.
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yahoo
Ya·hoo
1.(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
2.(lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
3.(lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.
2007-12-06 07:26:22 · answer #6 · answered by Yaybob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A wild person, ignorant, countryman, illiterate
2007-12-06 07:29:57 · answer #7 · answered by Ali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means a course or British person... no seriously!
2007-12-06 07:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by Chantel 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
isnt it like a chocolate :D
2007-12-06 07:31:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ignorance
2007-12-06 07:25:53 · answer #10 · answered by wudbiser 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋