— yahooism , n.
/yah"hooh, yay"-, yah hooh"/ , n. , pl. Yahoos .
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.
[ coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726) ]