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noun ˈjɑːhuːjəˈhuːjɑˈhu informal A rude, noisy, or violent person. Example sentencesExamples - Can't we organise a whip-round to buy an island where these counter-Enlightenment yahoos can live without bothering anybody else?
- Speeding yahoos in trucks, obscenity-hurling men, and people aiming their vehicles at you for sport are among the obstacles that students face when walking down the east side of Burnaby Mountain from SFU, says one SFU student.
- This and other glaring contradictions have been obscured by yammering talk-show yahoos who have been attempting to equate dissent with treason and capitulation.
- A couple of years ago, a band of local yahoos vandalized their home, threw bottles of beer through two front windows, kicked in the front door, trashed the garden, and cut the phone line to the house.
- True, it would represent a humiliating surrender to some of the most reactionary yahoos in American society.
- It is neither smart nor attractive for liberals, the self-professed champions of the little people, to scorn the vast majority of their fellow citizens as mindless yahoos.
- When will the Left learn that this is not simply a nation of dimwitted yahoos?
- It is incomprehensible that this group of yahoos can, under cover of darkness, set up an ambush for the emergency services.
- Doesn't this simply reflect that the soccer hooligans and other yahoos have turned it into a symbol of bigotry?
- Would it be a land of civilised horses and violent yahoos?
- I delight in the pain of braying yahoos wherever I find it.
- Unfortunately it also has the most appalling collection of yahoos in English cricket and their drunken antics put Headingley's Test future in some jeopardy.
- With politics, there just happens to be [an inordinate amount] of flag-waving yahoos.
- Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos.
- It happened because the editors and reporters at the Los Angeles Times take it for granted that people who live in weird states like Wyoming are dangerously ignorant yahoos who need to be taken in hand by the federal bureaucracy.
- Right now they see no hope for the future until those prone-to-racism yahoos whose reactions you're so worried about are shown that it's OK to hire someone who looks or talks or dresses or acts a little differently from the boys at the lodge.
- But there's not much you can do about yahoos or rhetorical hooligans but keep your own head on straight and let them chatter.
- A rowdy horde of northern yahoos came south for the game, some covered in Voyager-blue body paint, to cheer, chant and harass, intent on distracting the less-experienced Warriors from the match.
- The young people, they have no religion, and the yahoos are coming home to roost.
- Notice the condescension toward American soldiers, who are rightly viewed by most people as volunteer members of elite organizations, not as unemployable yahoos.
Synonyms barbarian, philistine, vulgarian, savage, brute, beast, boor, oaf, ruffian, thug, lout, hoodlum, hooligan, vandal, rowdy, bully boy, brawler informal clod, clodhopper, tough, toughie, roughneck, bruiser, hard man British informal yobbo, yob, bovver boy, lager lout, chav, oik, ape, gorilla, bear, lump Scottish informal radge North American informal lummox Australian/New Zealand informal hoon
Origin Mid 18th century: from the name of an imaginary race of brutish creatures in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). The fourth part of Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, describes the country of the Houyhnhnms, who were intelligent horses. Their simplicity and virtue contrasts with the disgusting brutality of the Yahoos, beasts in the shape of men. Soon yahoo was being used for a coarse person or lout. In Australia the Yahoo is a large, hairy man-like monster supposedly inhabiting the east of the country. The name is recorded from the mid 19th century, and may have originated in an Aboriginal word, though Swift's Yahoos influenced the form in English. In the internet site and search engine Yahoo!, Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, but was chosen partly because the associations of yahoo appealed to them.
exclamation jaˈhuːjɑːˈhuːjɑˈhu Expressing great joy or excitement. Example sentencesExamples - I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo!
- After months of eating raw fish, facing thirst, sharks, and other terrors, Pi finds himself on an island - yahoo!
Origin Natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the 1970s. nounyäˈho͞ojɑˈhu informal A rude, noisy, or violent person. Example sentencesExamples - Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos.
- A couple of years ago, a band of local yahoos vandalized their home, threw bottles of beer through two front windows, kicked in the front door, trashed the garden, and cut the phone line to the house.
- Speeding yahoos in trucks, obscenity-hurling men, and people aiming their vehicles at you for sport are among the obstacles that students face when walking down the east side of Burnaby Mountain from SFU, says one SFU student.
- Doesn't this simply reflect that the soccer hooligans and other yahoos have turned it into a symbol of bigotry?
- It is incomprehensible that this group of yahoos can, under cover of darkness, set up an ambush for the emergency services.
- With politics, there just happens to be [an inordinate amount] of flag-waving yahoos.
- A rowdy horde of northern yahoos came south for the game, some covered in Voyager-blue body paint, to cheer, chant and harass, intent on distracting the less-experienced Warriors from the match.
- The young people, they have no religion, and the yahoos are coming home to roost.
- Notice the condescension toward American soldiers, who are rightly viewed by most people as volunteer members of elite organizations, not as unemployable yahoos.
- Would it be a land of civilised horses and violent yahoos?
- Can't we organise a whip-round to buy an island where these counter-Enlightenment yahoos can live without bothering anybody else?
- It is neither smart nor attractive for liberals, the self-professed champions of the little people, to scorn the vast majority of their fellow citizens as mindless yahoos.
- When will the Left learn that this is not simply a nation of dimwitted yahoos?
- True, it would represent a humiliating surrender to some of the most reactionary yahoos in American society.
- But there's not much you can do about yahoos or rhetorical hooligans but keep your own head on straight and let them chatter.
- I delight in the pain of braying yahoos wherever I find it.
- Unfortunately it also has the most appalling collection of yahoos in English cricket and their drunken antics put Headingley's Test future in some jeopardy.
- This and other glaring contradictions have been obscured by yammering talk-show yahoos who have been attempting to equate dissent with treason and capitulation.
- It happened because the editors and reporters at the Los Angeles Times take it for granted that people who live in weird states like Wyoming are dangerously ignorant yahoos who need to be taken in hand by the federal bureaucracy.
- Right now they see no hope for the future until those prone-to-racism yahoos whose reactions you're so worried about are shown that it's OK to hire someone who looks or talks or dresses or acts a little differently from the boys at the lodge.
Synonyms barbarian, philistine, vulgarian, savage, brute, beast, boor, oaf, ruffian, thug, lout, hoodlum, hooligan, vandal, rowdy, bully boy, brawler
Origin Mid 18th century: from the name of an imaginary race of brutish creatures in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). exclamationjɑˈhuyäˈho͞o Expressing great joy or excitement. Example sentencesExamples - I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo!
- After months of eating raw fish, facing thirst, sharks, and other terrors, Pi finds himself on an island - yahoo!
Origin Natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the 1970s. |