yahooとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈjɑːhuː/
• 韻: -ɑːhu

名詞

yahoo (plural yahoos)

1. (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
2. (cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
   • 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report

     The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.

   • 1985, Michael Raynal, Yahoos in the Bahamas: Cryptozoology, volume 4:

同意語

• (a rough, coarse, or uncouth person): yokel, lout

派生語

• Netanyahoo

語源 2

Expressive.

発音

• IPA: /jəˈhuː/
• 韻: -uː

間投詞

yahoo

1. An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:

     "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"

2. A battle cry.

動詞

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To give a cry of yahoo.

語源 3

From Yahoo!.

別の表記

• Yahoo

動詞

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

1. (Internet, informal, transitive, intransitive) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
   • 2007, Tell:

     Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!

   • 2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones, →ISBN, page 46:

     I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.

   • 2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers, →ISBN:

     In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).

参照

アナグラム

• ooyah

別の表記

• Yahoo

語源

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the name itself is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, incorporated 1995. However, other sources claim the main inspiration by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo originates from Yahoo, the race of barbaric beings from the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (perhaps with a semantic notion of strongly exploring the then-"wild" late 90s Internet), thence the acronym apparently being a backronym. Also compare Etymology 2 of yahoo; the exclamation point was supposedly added to "strengthen" the trademark.

発音

• IPA: /ˈjɑːhuː/, /jɑːˈhuː/

固有名詞

Yahoo!

1. (Internet, trademark) A web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.

派生語

• Yahoo (noun, verb)
• Yahoo boy

アナグラム

• ooyah