Definitions for Yahoos

Yahoos Ya·hoo

Spelling: [yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo]
IPA: /ˈyɑ hu, ˈyeɪ-, yɑˈhu/

Yahoos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Yahoos (ahoosy).

Definitions for Yahoos

noun

  1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
  2. (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
  3. (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.

Origin of Yahoos

coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Examples for Yahoos

The sort of man that Obama is has become normal to all but the yahoos among us.

Here the conditions are reversed; there is no romance; the dupes are women, and also the yahoos.

Swift is in the same class, but Swift enjoyed scarifying his yahoos.

Are we still going to see these yahoos on TV this fall, though, saying what a great man he is?

Many other voters might be inclined to vote Republican, were it not so evidently in the grip of a bunch of yahoos.

How willing and eager the pigmies and yahoos would have been to stone him.

Unlike the yahoos who booed a gay solider and shouted “Let him die!”

And the Yarmouth yahoos yawned and hastened away in disgust.

And in all cases, he shall preside at and conduct the Grand Council of yahoos.

They must shore be deeficient in taste, them Laredo yahoos!'

Word Value for Yahoos
Scrable

12

Words with friends

10

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