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noun
yahoo  n.  
1.
One of a race of filthy brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms 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.)
4.
Someone who is not very intelligent or not interested in culture.
Synonyms: yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.





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"Yahoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... give our service to the weavers. We are strangely surprised to hear that the bells in Ireland ring without your money. I hope you do not write the thing that is not. We are afraid that B—— hath been guilty of that crime, that you (like a houyhnhnm) have treated him as a yahoo, and discarded him your service. I fear you do not understand these modish terms, which every creature ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... Yahoo or two if he must, but I think you ought to tell him he's committing a criminal folly in asking that young Yankee, Mr. Fair, to stop with him at Widewood when he comes here ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable


Words linked to "Yahoo" :   fictional character, character, hick, hayseed, yokel, trademark, rustic, search engine, rube, fictitious character, chawbacon, bumpkin


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