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Yahoo vs. Yokel — What's the Difference?

Yahoo vs. Yokel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Yahoo and Yokel

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Yahoo

An unrefined and often loud or disruptive person.

Yokel

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.

Yahoo

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

Yokel

A rustic; a bumpkin.

Yahoo

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

(pejorative) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.
They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.

Yahoo

An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

Yokel

A country bumpkin.

Yahoo

A battle cry.

Yokel

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

Yahoo

To give a cry of "yahoo".

Yahoo

To search using the Yahoo! search engine.

Yahoo

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

Yahoo

Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

Yahoo

A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.

Yahoo

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

Yahoo

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

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