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ya·hoo  (yäh, y-)

n. pl. ya·hoos

A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.

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[From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.]

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yahoo·ism n.

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yahoo

Noun

pl -hoos a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person [after the brutish creatures in Gulliver's Travels]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	yahoo - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel rustic - an unsophisticated country person
	2.	Yahoo - one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
	3.	Yahoo - a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product

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yahoo

noun philistine, savage, lout, beast, barbarian, brute, rowdy, hoon Austral., N.Z. roughneck (slang) boor, churl, yob or yobbo Brit. (slang) cougan Austral. (slang) scozza Austral. (slang) bogan Austral. (slang)