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Definition of yawp in English: yawpnoun jɔːpjɔp 1A harsh or hoarse cry or yelp. the cur did not bark, other than a single yawp Example sentencesExamples - ‘Just let me fix my hair real quick… ‘I got up and Hannibal let out a little yawp as he fell to the bed.’
- Explosions, barking yawps, shrill high-register runs, and throaty, rasping groans - the place sounds like it's going to spontaneously combust.
- For my money, it's when Alien swells his chest and lets out his yawp that he writes most compellingly.
- He does not defiantly explode, he chokes, takes a last glorious breath for his mighty yawp and fumbles the exhale.
- And there was certainly plenty of noise yesterday, as the unsilenced engines capable of turning at 18,000 revs a minute produced an array of screams and yawps: a barbaric cacophony or the music of the cylinders, according to taste.
- The British rapper has a strangled yawp of a voice (occasionally he swallows his words whole), his rhymes are all about the rough patches of street life and romance, and his stage name suggests a teetering instability.
- Showing a figure on a bridge letting out a barbaric yawp of existential angst, ‘Skrik’ is frequently reproduced and parodied - a popular beach item is a reproduction of the screamer as an inflatable pillow.
- Gripping the Ruler with two hands, he launched himself at the demon with a barbaric yawp.
- The countdown began and with a war yawp Patton blasted into the sky.
- A barbaric yawp of celebration might be in order.
- He guillotined existentialism just when we needed most to hear its howl, its barbaric yawp that there is something in common between God and all of us.
- They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs - they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars.
- The resulting yawp was one of terror and betrayal.
Synonyms sob, weep, crying fit, fit of crying - 1.1North American mass noun Foolish or noisy talk.
therefore his yawp is tolerated, even appreciated Example sentencesExamples - If it's a guilty pleasure, a loud sloppy nihilistic yawp aimed at film-school graduates, fine. Say so and be done with it.
- Amid the ensuing communal yawp is one unconverted smartass - a cipher, if you will, for a music scene fraught with carefully cultivated, ultimately unrevealing, laughably insecure projections of ‘cool’ - who yells back, ‘I'm dead!’
verb jɔːpjɔp [no object]1Shout or exclaim hoarsely. the fans screeched, yawped, and pounded their palms Example sentencesExamples - I yawp when you stop breathing because in you is my own wish to survive.
Synonyms call, shout, exclaim, sing out, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 1.1North American Talk foolishly or noisily.
it's as well not to yawp much about our going alone Example sentencesExamples - In ‘Self Repeating Poem, ‘he yawps about the absurdity of a world in which we ‘eat ideas with whipped cream and die of hunger.’
Derivatives noun This summer workshop marks my second session, but the safe space and creative company of other yawpers makes anyone feel immediately comfortable to express, create, be. Example sentencesExamples - Delphine, who was the yawper, also jumped to her feet and Josephine sloshed her own coffee with chicory into its saucer.
- Some kids emerged as the true heirs of Whitman, barbaric yawpers singing their own songs of themselves.
- Rather than arguing, in time - honored GOP fashion, that the wealthy should pay less taxes, conservative yawpers will run around advocating an ‘IRS reform’ to simplify the complicated tax forms that we all hate filling out - coincidentally by eliminating graduated tax rates.
Origin Middle English (as a verb): imitative. The noun dates from the early 19th century. Rhymes dorp, gawp, scaup, scorp, Thorpe, warp, whaup Definition of yawp in US English: yawpnounjɔpyôp 1A harsh or hoarse cry or yelp. the cur did not bark, other than a single yawp Example sentencesExamples - A barbaric yawp of celebration might be in order.
- ‘Just let me fix my hair real quick… ‘I got up and Hannibal let out a little yawp as he fell to the bed.’
- He does not defiantly explode, he chokes, takes a last glorious breath for his mighty yawp and fumbles the exhale.
- They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs - they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars.
- Gripping the Ruler with two hands, he launched himself at the demon with a barbaric yawp.
- For my money, it's when Alien swells his chest and lets out his yawp that he writes most compellingly.
- The countdown began and with a war yawp Patton blasted into the sky.
- The British rapper has a strangled yawp of a voice (occasionally he swallows his words whole), his rhymes are all about the rough patches of street life and romance, and his stage name suggests a teetering instability.
- Explosions, barking yawps, shrill high-register runs, and throaty, rasping groans - the place sounds like it's going to spontaneously combust.
- He guillotined existentialism just when we needed most to hear its howl, its barbaric yawp that there is something in common between God and all of us.
- And there was certainly plenty of noise yesterday, as the unsilenced engines capable of turning at 18,000 revs a minute produced an array of screams and yawps: a barbaric cacophony or the music of the cylinders, according to taste.
- The resulting yawp was one of terror and betrayal.
- Showing a figure on a bridge letting out a barbaric yawp of existential angst, ‘Skrik’ is frequently reproduced and parodied - a popular beach item is a reproduction of the screamer as an inflatable pillow.
Synonyms sob, weep, crying fit, fit of crying - 1.1North American Foolish or noisy talk.
therefore his yawp is tolerated, even appreciated Example sentencesExamples - Amid the ensuing communal yawp is one unconverted smartass - a cipher, if you will, for a music scene fraught with carefully cultivated, ultimately unrevealing, laughably insecure projections of ‘cool’ - who yells back, ‘I'm dead!’
- If it's a guilty pleasure, a loud sloppy nihilistic yawp aimed at film-school graduates, fine. Say so and be done with it.
verbjɔpyôp [no object]1Shout or exclaim hoarsely. the fans screeched, yawped, and pounded their palms Example sentencesExamples - I yawp when you stop breathing because in you is my own wish to survive.
Synonyms call, shout, exclaim, sing out, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 1.1North American Talk foolishly or noisily.
it's as well not to yawp much about our going alone Example sentencesExamples - In ‘Self Repeating Poem, ‘he yawps about the absurdity of a world in which we ‘eat ideas with whipped cream and die of hunger.’
Origin Middle English (as a verb): imitative. The noun dates from the early 19th century. |