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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Ya•hoo (yä′ho̅o̅, yā′-, yä ho̅o̅′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -hoos. - 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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