Definitions for Yahoo

Yahoo ya·hoo

Spelling: [yah-hoo]
IPA: /ˈyɑˈhu/

Yahoo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Yahoo (ahooy).

Definitions for Yahoo

noun

  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.

interjection

  1. (an exclamation used to express joy, excitement, etc.)

Origin of Yahoo

First recorded in 1975-80; of imitative origin

Examples for Yahoo

My faith in the yahoo was shaken, and I trembled for my friend.

As mentioned, yahoo has a black stain on its collaboration and severe breach of privacy.

(yahoo now refers to itself as a digital media company rather than a technology company).

In 2005, when Alibaba was picking up momentum in its battle against eBay, yahoo bought a 40 percent stake in the company.

I'd like to meet up with the yahoo that wrote that rank yarn!

Google and yahoo are already among the largest media companies in the world.

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

Sure I knowed the ould yahoo hadn't the price of a nanny-goat.

As for Mr. yahoo, she recoiled from him with horror at the very first glance.

The mick's a reg'lar yahoo, can't hardly spell 'is own name.

Word Value for Yahoo
Scrable

11

Words with friends

9

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