yahoo

Examples

• All

• They look like a couple of yahoos.

  Problem Child (1990)

• What a bunch of yahoos.

  50 to 1 (2014)

• So yeah, it was only a few yahoos who caused problems.

  Linus Tech Tips

• Oh, we gonna run those yahoos back to town.

  Open Season (2006)

• I heard you two yahoos were in town.

  Epoch of Lotus (2000)

• So who are the yahoos in Washington we gotta deal with on this?

  Geostorm (2017)

• We no longer want to be associated with yahoos like you.

  Blog text (8)

• Looks like you yahoos could use a lift.

  Smurfs (2025)

• Yes, they *are* up against a bunch of religious right yahoos.

  Blog text (4)

• Have any of you yahoos ever studied economics?

  Blog text (4)

Synonyms

T

turkey

vsyahoo

• Offensive

79 8.5

A person who behaves foolishly or annoys other people

targets general uncultured boorishness rather than mere foolishness

H

hick

vsyahoo

• Offensive

37 9.6

A person from the countryside who seems simple and old-fashioned

is similar but does not require rural or backward social traits

R

rube

vsyahoo

• Offensive

32 9.9

A person from the countryside who is not used to city life

focuses more on lack of culture and interest than naiveté

B

barbarian

vsyahoo

• Offensive

23 6.4

A person who behaves rudely or without manners

stresses lack of culture and low intelligence rather than only crudeness

Y

yokel

vsyahoo

• Offensive

17 9.6

A person from the countryside who seems uneducated or unaware of city ways

is a general insult not tied specifically to rural origin

B

bumpkin

vsyahoo

• Offensive

16 8.9

A person from the countryside who seems not used to city life

is broader, applying to uncultured people anywhere, not only countryside

H

hayseed

vsyahoo

• Offensive

9 9.8

A person from the countryside who seems not used to city life

is the wider insult for lack of culture regardless of origin

B

boor

vsyahoo

• Offensive

2 8.3

A rude person who shows little respect for others

is about lacking culture and interest, not always active rudeness

Y

Yahoo

vsyahoo

• Offensive

1 9.9

A rude, uncivilized person like the creatures in Gulliver's Travels

is the ordinary insult for a crude uncultured person

S

simple

vsyahoo

• Offensive

1 9.9

A person who is not very intelligent

adds a cultural lack and disinterest, not just low intelligence

How Uncultured

barbarian

• Offensive

23 6.4

yahoo

• Offensive

11 8.9

boor

• Offensive

2 8.3

oaf

• Offensive

19 6.4

lout

• Offensive

11 7.9

Surface Forms

Etymology