yahoo

n

a lout, oaf. The word, imitating a wild shout, was used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as the name of a race of brutish humans. The modern usage var-ies slightly in the English-speaking coun-tries. In Britain the word often denotes a boisterous, inconsiderate youth, and is used of hoorays, students, etc.; in Aus-tralia the word generally equates with yob; while in the USA the word may depict a stupid and/or coarse person.