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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



... assign to death— even Van Helmont asserted, "Deus non fecit mortem." The peoples, who, like those of Dahome, have a distinct future world, have borrowed it, I cannot help thinking, from Egypt. And when an African chief said in my presence to a Yahoo-like naval officer, "When so be I die, I come up for white man! When so be you die, you come up for monkey!" my suspicion is that he had distorted the doctrine of some missionary. Man would hardly have a future without ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton


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


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