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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

yahoo
     n 1: not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel,
           rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]
     2: one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the
        Houyhnhnms in Swift's Gulliver's Travels [syn: Yahoo]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Yahoo \Ya"hoo\, n.
   1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's ``Gulliver's
      Travels.'' See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in
      Fiction.

   2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

   3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

Yahoo

   <World-Wide Web> Yet Another Hierarchical
   Officious/Obstreperous/Odiferous/Organized Oracle.

   (Or a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
   who have the form and all the vices of man, or an uncouth or
   rowdy person).

   Probably the biggest hierarchical index of the World-Wide
   Web.  Originally at Stanford University, Yahoo moved to its
   own site in April 1995.  It allows you to move up and down the
   heirarchy, to search it and to suggest additions.  It also
   features "What's New", "What's Popular", "What's Cool" and a
   random link.

   Home.

   (1995-04-05)

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 

YAHOO
        Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle (WWW)