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Yahoo

Or "Ignorant Yahoo!"

Not to be confused with the modern term "Yahoo", a trade name of an Internet Service Provider, the old term "yahoo" refers to any of a number of apelike subhuman forms of quazi-humaniform beasts as seen in the famous book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift in which the traveller sees the world from a set of different perspectives. Political stare ahead of its time. The book is available in bookshops and as a free download from Gutenberg

People shouting "Yahoo!" at you across the street are using a term of abuse, and it's not politically correct! However they may end up having to look at themselves differently in the mirror, in the same way as churls shouting homophobic abuse may be horrified to discover that homophobic abuse of that form is usually by homophobes who are gay themselves but in denial.