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Yahoo

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yahoo1 /ˈjɑːhuː, jəˈhuː/

▶noun informal a rude, coarse, or brutish person.

– origin C18: from the name of an imaginary race in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yahoo2 /jɑːˈhuː, ja-/

▶exclamation expressing great joy or excitement.

'Yahoo' also found in these Oxford entries:

wahoo - yahoo - yahoo

Forum discussions with the word(s) "Yahoo" in the title:

google vs yahoo
group for Yahoo, MSN messagers, etc = pool?
on or from yahoo
Thanks a yahoo
yahoo! (interjection)

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