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Villager loves to carry fodder on the way back (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yahoo

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'villager' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'loves to carry fodder on the way back' is the wordplay.
'loves' becomes 'oo' (love means 0 in tennis).
'to carry fodder' becomes 'hay' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on the way back' is a reversal indicator.
'oo'+'hay'='oohay'
'oohay' written backwards gives 'YAHOO'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for yahoo that I've seen before include "Lout (in Gulliver's Travels)" , "One of Dean Swift's brutish people" , "shout of joy" , "Human-looking beast in Gulliver's Travels: search engine conglomerate" , "Swift chap" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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