DictionaryYa•hooPronunciation: (yä'hOO, yā'-, yä-hOO'), [key] —n., —pl. -hoos. 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. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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