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Synonyms for yahoo

  • noun

Most common

hick rube lout hayseed

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Noun

1. Bumpkin — A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual

bumpkin, clown, rube, hick, boor, lout, hayseed, churl, yokel slang, chawbacon dated, honyock slang US

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

Forms

Plural
yahoos → bumpkins, clowns, rubes, hicks…

Example sentences

  • hick The truth is that Tom is not such a hick, buddy.
  • rube When I moved to New York, everyone I met treated me like a rube.
  • lout Trump is a lout, because he talks and acts like a lout.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
yahoorising
hickrising
ruberising
loutrising
hayseedrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
rube1, hick1, boor1, lout1
5 letters
clown1, yokel2, churl
7 letters
bumpkin2, hayseed, honyock
9 letters
chawbacon

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (yokel2 = 2 syllables).