Difference between Yahoo and Yokel

What is the difference between Yahoo and Yokel?

Yahoo as a noun is a rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout. while Yokel as a noun is an unsophisticated person.

Yahoo

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: An exclamation of joy. A battle cry.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout. A loud boisterous person. A derogatory term for a white person from the Confederate South (i.e., United States). A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Yokel

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An unsophisticated person.A person of rural background.

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