- a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
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ya•hoo /ˈyɑhu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhu/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. -hoos.
- an uncultivated, bad-mannered, boorish person;
a lout.
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yahoo /ˈjɑːhuː; jɑːˈhuː/ n ( pl -hoos)
Ya•hoo
(yä′ho̅o̅, yā′-, yä ho̅o̅′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -hoos.
ya′hoo•ism, n.
- Literature(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- (l.c.) an uncultivated or boorish person;
lout;
philistine;
yokel. - (l.c.) a coarse or brutish person.
- coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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