Uncouth individual (5)

I believe the answer is:

yahoo

(Other definitions for yahoo that I've seen before include "Brutish lout" , "In novel, brute" , "Uncivilised brute(Swift)" , "Race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels" , "Boorish lout (after Swift)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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