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yahoo (1)

ya·hoo [ y h, yaa h ] (plural ya·hoos)


noun 
Definition:
 
rude person: somebody who is regarded as unruly, crude, or brutish ( informal insult )

[Early 18th century. After the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]

ya·hoo·ism noun
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