yahoo

interjection

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

noun, plural Ya·hoos.

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.

noun plural -hoos

1. a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person

n.“a brute in human form,” 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” The internet search engine so called from 1994.