Brutish characters in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (6)

I believe the answer is:

yahoos

(Other definitions for yahoos that I've seen before include "Brute people invented by Dean Swift" , "Swift's brutish creatures in Gulliver's Travels" , "Jonathan Swift's brutes that looked 31ac" , "Swift's brutish men" , "Swift creature" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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