'I may finish my letter,' he writes, 'especially as the conclusion of it naturally turns my thoughts from Yahoos to one of the dearest pledges I have upon earth, yourself, to whom I am a most Affectionate Father, 'ORRERY.' See ante, i. 275-284, for Johnson's letters to Thomas Warton, many of which end 'in studied varieties of phrase.'

All our interest, however, is centered on the Yahoos, a frightful race, having the form and appearance of men, but living in unspeakable degradation.

Swift's degraded race of Yahoos is a reflection of the degradation to be seen in multitudes of London saloons.

On his fourth voyage, he visits the country of the Houyhnhnms and describes the Yahoos, who are the embodiment of all the detestable qualities of human beings.

beggar, gaberlunzie^, muckworm^, mudlark^, sans culotte, raff^, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^, scrub, jade; gossoon^. Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^, rough diamond^. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.

When Amazon kicked off, many writers got their knickers in a tight and powerful knot at the idea that axe-grinding yahoos were filling the Amazon message-boards with ill-considered slams at their work for, if a personal recommendation is the best way to sell a book, then certainly a personal condemnation is the best way to *not* sell a book.

Axe-grinding, mouth-breathing yahoos, defaming my good name!

In man he only sees the littleness, the grossness, the stupidity, or the brutal degradation of Yahoos.

Now must you do your bit for me, For, guided by the sage's lore, I mean to barter progeny With Brown, the man next door, And educate in place of you Bertram, his brazen-lunged Yahoo.

The filthiest and most spiteful Yahoo of the fiction was a noble creature compared with the Barère of history.

He had not, we think, like his relative, Swift, originally any diseased delight in filth for its own sake; was notshall we say?a natural, but an artificial Yahoo.

"The Yahoo's Overthrow.

Finally, in his loathsome caricature of mankind, as Yahoos, he contrasts them, to their shame, with the beasts, and sets instinct above reason.

Many of his defeated foes turned their weapons against me, hoping thus to give him pain; thus Admiral Sir John Hay, at Wigton, used language of me so coarse that the Scotsman and Glasgow Herald refused to print it, and the editor of the Scotsman described it as "language so coarse that it could have hardly dropped from a yahoo."

Where Guarini depicted a courtesan, Fletcher has painted a yahoo.

YAHOO, name of a race of brutes, subject to the Houyhuhnms (q. v.), in "Gulliver's Travels," with the form and all the vices of men.