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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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SYLLABICATION:ya·hoo
PRONUNCIATION:  yäh, y-
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. ya·hoos
A crude or brutish person. See synonyms at boor.
ETYMOLOGY:From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
OTHER FORMS:yahoo·ism —NOUN
 
 
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