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English

Etymology

Creative origin by w:Jonathan Swift|Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels'>w:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels. A race of brutes, who look and act like man.
Also the rebel battle yell (southern confederate, CSA) cried with a shrill yeaaaaa hoo as in yea, though I walk in the valley of death...

The Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report (quote below), since the sound "H" does not occur in aboriginal languages, only in words learnt or adopted from Europeans. (Reference: Bunyips and Bigfoots, Malcolm Smith, Millenium Books, 1996, ISBN 1-86429-081-1.)

Noun

A rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
A loud boisterous person.
A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
: 1835: The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit. — James Holman, Travels, 1835 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, above)
: 1985: Yahoos in the Bahamas — title of paper by Michael Raynal, Cryptozoology, volume 4, 1985

Synonyms

yokel, lout

Interjection

An exclamation of joy.
A battle cry.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English yahoo \ya"hoo\ (y[aum]"h[=oo]), n.
1. One of a race of filthy brutes resembling men but subject
to the Houyhnhnms in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in
the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 + CM]

2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. Someone who is not very intelligent or not interested in
culture.

Syn: yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.
[WordNet 1.5] Yahweh
Jahve
Jahveh

WordNet yahoo
n 1: not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel,
rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]
2: one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the
Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

YAHOO Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle (WWW)

FOLDOC Yahoo

Yet Another Hierarchical
Officious/Obstreperous/Odiferous/Organized Oracle.

(Or a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
who have the form and all the vices of man, or an uncouth or
rowdy person).

Probably the biggest hierarchical index of the {World-Wide
Web}. Originally at Stanford University, Yahoo moved to its
own site in April 1995. It allows you to move up and down the
heirarchy, to search it and to suggest additions. It also
features "What's New", "What's Popular", "What's Cool" and a
random link.

Home (http://www.yahoo.com/).

(1995-04-05)