Brutish characters in Gulliver's Travels (6)

I believe the answer is:

yahoos

(Other definitions for yahoos that I've seen before include "Swift creature" , "Brute people invented by Dean Swift" , "Brutish people created by Dean Swift" , "Dean Swift's fictional brute people" , "Jonathan Swift's brutes that looked 31ac" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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