What dose yahoo mean?

Question

What dose yahoo mean?

Answer 1

I remember watching cowboys shouting yahoo/yipee when rounding up cattle, It means they are happy.

Answer 2

The name Yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang (Yahoo creators) inside they seleted the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo.

Answer 3

Oh I dont know, when people say it on the cartoons it is normally "yahoo!" as in "yes!!!" lol dont know if this helps lol x*x

Answer 4

The 'Yahoos' were originally a primitive race from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - see the links for an explanation of why Yahoo chose the name:

Answer 5

I like Patricia's answer above.  I had always thought "Yahoo" came from yodeling across mountains to connect with others. . . "Yaaaaaa . . .hooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Answer 6

the name 'Yahoo' originated in the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift.  It was the name for the race of brutes

Answer 7

A rude, coarse or violent person (Oxford English Dictionary).

Answer 8

'Yahoo' is taken from Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels. The Yahoos were "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth", which the founders of Yahoo! liked the sound of.

Answer 9

According to my Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. C in the footnote on page 2421 Yahoo is "perhaps compounded from two expressions of disgust, yah and ugh (or hoo), common in the 18th century."  This is in reference to Jonathan Swift's use of the word in Part Four of Gulliver's Travels.