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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
  2. noun one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
  3. noun a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance

Etymology

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.

In classic literature

Synonyms

yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon

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