and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person". [1] American frontiersman Daniel Boone , who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels , claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver%27s_Travels ) Below,