yahoos

noun

a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance

one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Roots

yahooyahoo- · other · brute (from Swift)

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