DictionaryyahooUncultivated person
noun

yahoo

YAH-hoo/ˈjɑːhuː/

A crude or uncultivated person.

The yahoo shouts across the café with one shoe on a chair.

An older man behaves noisily and inconsiderately at a small café table, shouting with one shoe propped on an adjacent chair while a nearby customer recoils from the noise.
Etymology

Swift coined the name for brutish human creatures in Gulliver’s Travels. Their lack of civilized behavior made the name a label for a rude or uncultivated person.

In context

History Nerd's Man Cave1:27
that's a bunch of marketing gibberish that some yahoo who works for these Stetson advertising agency pulled out of their butt
A Review of the Stetson Bozeman Crushable Wool Hat

More examples

  • A few yahoos spoiled the quiet picnic.
  • She refused to join the yahoos throwing trash.
  • The essay mocks a wealthy yahoo with no manners.

Forms

yahoo · yahoos

Similar words

lout
Lout emphasizes rude clumsy behavior.
boor
Boor emphasizes bad manners.