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Definition of yahoo : 1. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.
2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.
3. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Synonyms:

boor, hayseed, chuff, hick, yokel, beast, brute, vulgarian, chawbacon, rube, Philistine, churl, bumpkin, savage, barbarian, good

Usage examples:

• The cruel Jarvy thou hast summon'd oft, Enforcing mercy on the coarse Yahoo, That thought his horse the courser of the two- Whilst Swift smiled down aloft! - "The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood", Thomas Hood.