YAHOO

I. noun (plural ~s) Date: 1726 a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans, a boorish, crass, or stupid person, ~ism noun II. interjection Etymology: perhaps alteration of yo-ho, interjection used to attract attention, from yo + ho Date: 1870 yippee