A Yahoo comes from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Swift describes them as, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism.
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