Synonyms for yahoo

Grammar : Noun

Spell : yah-hoo

Phonetic Transcription : ˈyɑˈhu

Définition of yahoo

Origin : "a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." The internet search engine so called from 1994.

noun savage

Example sentences :

I'd like to meet up with the yahoo that wrote that rank yarn!
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

As for Mr. Yahoo, she recoiled from him with horror at the very first glance.
Extract from : « Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) » by Samuel Warren

My faith in the Yahoo was shaken, and I trembled for my friend.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 » by Various

The mick's a reg'lar Yahoo, can't hardly spell 'is own name.
Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman

Sure I knowed the ould Yahoo hadn't the price of a nanny-goat.
Extract from : « The Turn of the Road » by Rutherford Mayne

Where Guarini depicted a courtesan, Fletcher has painted a yahoo.
Extract from : « Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama » by Walter W. Greg

In short, I was discreditable and harmless and unlovely as the young Yahoo can be.
Extract from : « Plum Pudding » by Christopher Morley

Panurge has some Yahooish characteristics, but he is not a Yahoo—in fact, there is no misanthropy in Rabelais.
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury

"We must look devilish serious—no grinning till the proper time," said Yahoo.
Extract from : « Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) » by Samuel Warren

Then he gave the Yahoo a miserable pommelling, to be sure; and finished by knocking out five of his front teeth, viz.
Extract from : « Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) » by Samuel Warren

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