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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—Y

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A savage; a very ill-mannered person. In Gulliver's Travels the Yahoos are described as brutes with human forms and vicious propensities. They are subject to the Houyhnhnms, or horses with human reason.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Yama
Yacu-mama
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