Yahoo vs. Yokel — What's the Difference?

An unrefined and often loud or disruptive person.

Yokel is one of several derogatory terms referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people. The term is of uncertain etymology and is only attributed from the early 19th century.Yokels are depicted as straightforward, simple, naïve, and easily deceived, failing to see through false pretenses.

(pejorative) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person

A rustic; a bumpkin.

(cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

(pejorative) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.

An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

A country bumpkin.

A battle cry.

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

To give a cry of "yahoo".

To search using the Yahoo! search engine.

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift