Dictionary
Ya•hoo
Pronunciation: (yä'hOO, yā'-, yä-hOO'), [key]—
n.,
—pl. -hoos.
1. (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.
2. (
l.c.) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
3. (
l.c.) a coarse or brutish person.
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