Yahoo

Ya-hoo ()

noun
1. a boorish crass or stupid person.
Believe it or not there's only one yahoo in the picture to the right because one of those men respects women, loves his mom, and gives back to his community.*

Synonyms: addlebrain, ass, blockhead, blunderer, bonehead, cretin, dimwit, dork, dumbbell, dunce, fool, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, kook,  misologist, moron, muttonhead, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, out to lunch, pinhead, simpleton, stupid, tomfool, twit.**

2. a probably mythical creature resembling a big hairy man, said to haunt eastern Australia.
Said one mate to another: "Is that a sasquatch?" And his mate replied: "No! It's a yahoo!"

Synonyms: large monster, sasquatch, yeti.

*Hint: it's NOT the younger one.
**Many expletives could be included here, but I assume most of my readers know those words.
***We know exactly how old "yahoo" is because its debut in print also marked its entrance into the English language as a whole. "Yahoo" began life as a made-up word invented by Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver's Travels, which was published in 1726. The Yahoos were a race of brutes, with the form and vices of humans, encountered by Gulliver in his fourth and final voyage. They represented Swift's view of mankind at its lowest. It is not surprising, then, that "yahoo" came to be applied to any actual human who was particularly unpleasant or unintelligent. Yahoos were controlled by the intelligent and virtuous Houyhnhnms, a word which apparently did not catch people's fancy as "yahoo" did.

Yissing

yis-sing (yɪsɪŋ)

noun
1. a covetous state of being.
Yissing is how one feels when kissing.

Synonyms: aphrodisia, appetite, appetition, avarice, avidity, close-fistedness, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eroticism, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, hankering, hunger, impulse, longing, lust, lustfulness, motive, passion, parsimony, penuriousness, prurience, rapacity, resltessness, urge, yearning, yen.

Yob

yob (yb)

noun/slang*
1. A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
He's an ex-con? He might have multiple addiction problems? You haven't heard from him for days and suspect it's because he's up to something nasty? He's not even an attentive mate? Girlfriend, you might be dating a yob.

Synonyms: bezonian, blackguard, brute, bum, cad, caitiff, coward, creep, dog, drunkard, good-for-nothing, heel, hound, ingrate, knave, liar, libertine, loser, lowlife, maggot, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, pariah, pauper, pilgarlic, poltroon, rake, rapscallion, rascal, rat, reprobate, riffraff, rogue, ronion, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scum, skunk, smell-feast, snake, stinker, toad, tramp, vagabond, varlet, villain, wastrel, worm, wretch , yellow dog.***


* British slang.
** Alteration of boy spelled backwards.
*** But, as Henry Rollins once said: "I've been called worse by people who liked me!"

Yakka

yak-ka* (yk)

noun
1. Work.
The hard part of having a few days off is going back to yakka.

Synonyms: activity, assignment, art, attempt, calling, commission, commitment, contract, craft, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, do, duty, effort, elbow grease, employment, endeavor, exertion, gig, grind, grindstone, industry, job, line, livelihood, moil, nine-to-five, obligation, office, pains, performance, practice, profession, production, pursuit, push, racket, salt mines, servitude, slogging, slot, specialization, struggle, stint, sweat, swindle, task, thing, trade, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking, vocation.

verb
1. To work.
Saying I yakka all weekend sounds more fun than working.

Synonyms: act, application, apply one's self, article, be gainfully employed, buckle down, carry on, create, composition, deed, dig, do a job, do business, drive, dreg, drudge, earn a living, freelance, function, handicraft, have a job, hold a job, hustle, knuckle down, labour, manage, manufacture, moil, moonlight, nine-to-five, peg away, performance, plug away, ply, punch a clock, pursue, report, scratch, slave, slog, specialize, strain, strive, sweat, take on, toil, try.**

* Australian colloquialism.
** See, doesn't yakka sound more fun than all that?

Yardbird

yard-bird* (ˈjɑːdˌbɜːd)

noun
1. A military recruit, who performs the most menial of tasks.
Look at the yardbird mopping the mess hall.

Synonyms: desperate case, newbie, recruit, schmuck.

2. A person serving a sentence in prison.
Penpals? She's got half a dozen. That girl always had a thing for yardbirds.

Synonyms: con, convict, crook, felon, inmate, jail bird, law breaker, offender.

slang
1. A no-good criminal.
Lets all the kids smoke drugs back there, but she wants to restrict everyone else's access, while breaking half a dozen fire codes and discriminating against the general population of the place. That lady's nothing but a yardbird, I tell ya'!

Synonyms: bad actor, black marketeer, con, convict, crook, culprit, delinquent, evil doer, felon, fugitive, gangster, heavy, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hustler, jail bird, lawbreaker, muscle, scofflaw, slippery eel, thug, wrongdoer.

*In the plural form these things may be referred to as a band from the sixties.