Yahoo
['jɑːhuː;jə'huː] or ['jɑhu]
['jɑhu]
Definition
(noun.) a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance.
(noun.) one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift.
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Definition
n. a name given by Swift in Gulliver's Travels to a class of animals which have the forms of men but the understanding and passions of the lowest brutes: a despicable character.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- Yet, the smell of a _Yahoo_ continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This the master horse observed by my behaviour, and therefore sent the _Yahoo_ back to his kennel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This I would not be prevailed on to accept, abhorring to cover myself with any thing that had been on the back of a _Yahoo_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- For instance, _hhnm Yahoo_; _whnaholm Yahoo_, _ynlhmndwihlma Yahoo_, and an ill-contrived house _ynholmhnmrohlnw Yahoo_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The author relates several particulars of the _Yahoos_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four _Yahoos_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The question to be debated was, whether the _Yahoos_ should be exterminated from the face of the earth? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild _Yahoos_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Then as to the claws upon your feet before and behind, they are so short and tender, that one of our _Yahoos_ would drive a dozen of yours before him. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The Yahoos, a strange sort of animal, described. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I hear some of our sea _Yahoos_ find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He was sure no _Houyhnhnm_ alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust _Yahoos_ to manage it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- My master likewise mentioned another quality which his servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I expected every moment that my master would accuse the _Yahoos_ of those unnatural appetites in both sexes, so common among us. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Edited by Glenn