Yahoo

Meanings

Noun

• One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
• An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.

Verb

• Alternate spelling of yahoo

Origin

• Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. According to the Century Dictionary, "[a] made name, prob[ably] meant to suggest disgust".
• From the company name Yahoo%21; see more on origin there.