Yahoos

Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman, travels to exotic lands, including Lilliput (where the people are six inches tall), Brobdingnag (where the people are seventy feet tall), and the land of the Houyhnhnms (where horses are the intelligent beings, and humans, called Yahoos, are mute brutes of labor).

Gulliver's Travels 2002

Another thing he wondered at in the Yahoos was their strange disposition to nastiness and dirt, whereas there appears to be a natural love of cleanliness in all other animals.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases; which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted not by any ill treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

To return from this digression; when I asserted that the Yahoos were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know whether we had

Gulliver's Travels 1896

When appointed, Bartz set about slashing costs and staff - a move that made her instantly unpopular among the long-time "Yahoos" - but she was unable to revive the company's revenues or profits.

The Guardian World News Charles Arthur 2011

I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases; which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted, not by any ill – treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute.

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

When I asserted that the Yahoos were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know,

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

When I asserted that the Yahoos were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know, "whether we had Houyhnhnms among us, and what was their employment?"

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases; which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted, not by any ill-treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases; which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted, not by any ill-treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706