yawpyaupn.
/jɔːp/, U.S. /jɔp/, /jɑp/ a. A harsh, hoarse, or querulous cry, esp. of a bird.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > bark or yelp
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yap1826
boof1906
wow1913
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call > harsh
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clang1667
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yawp1824
cawk1856
squark1860
crunk1868
cronk1878
squarking1897
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > yell or yelp
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braya1300
yellc1300
yellinga1382
yarmc1400
yellocha1522
braying1547
yowt1554
yawping1576
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yellowing1652
yawl1728
yelloching1773
yelp1775
gowl1805
youp1808
yawp1824
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Yawp, the cry of a sickly bird; or one in distress.
1879 W. Black Macleod of Dare ix The eagle raised its great wings, and..flapped them..while it uttered a succession of shrill yawps.
1905 Sat. Rev. 12 Aug. 207/2 He can only tell us how bad he is by hideous grimaces and inarticulate yawps.
b. figurative. Applied in contempt to speech or utterance likened to this. Chiefly U.S., sometimes in allusion to Whitman's use.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > hoarse or husky quality
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rownessa1398
hoarseheadc1440
haskness?a1513
roup1579
raucity1607
retuseness1657
raucidity1669
throatiness1800
yawp1835
crackiness1891
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iii. 29 ‘Hold your yaup, you youngster you,’ roared the old man in reply.
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 114 He looked round as if he wanted to say something..; but I told him to go ahead and hold his yop.
1855 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 55 I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Oct. 571/1 He..ordered me to ‘hold my yop’.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 93 When Mr. Spencer found his Synthetic Philosophy reverberated from the other shores of the Atlantic in the ‘barbaric yawp’ of Whitman.
1904 Buffalo (N.Y.) Commerc. 25 Aug. 6 When this contest is ended, the insincere and ridiculous yawp about the fierce belligerency of Theodore Roosevelt will be laid away with the other feeble fakes.
1973 Publishers Weekly 26 Mar. 61/3 American readers may miss the experimentation and ‘barbaric yawp’ of avant-garde American poetry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
yawpyaupv.
/jɔːp/, U.S. /jɔp/, /jɑp/ Chiefly dialect.
1.
a. intransitive. To shout or exclaim hoarsely; to yelp, as a dog; to cry harshly or querulously, as a bird.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > bark or yelp
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yawpc1400
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yowta1525
bawl1556
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blaff1699
youp1855
whoof1863
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cry or call > harshly
creakc1325
crakec1386
yawpc1400
crunk1565
cawk1761
quawk1821
clang1832
clank1865
squark1871
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > howl or yelp
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yawpc1400
baffc1440
yelp1553
bawl1556
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yap1668
yamph1718
nyaff1808
yaff1808
yaffle1847
yappet1868
ki-yi1869
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > yell or yelp
yerrOE
yarmc1000
yellc1225
yawpc1400
yammer1513
outyell1562
yelloch1773
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 846 What! þay ȝeȝed & ȝolped of ȝestande sorȝe.
a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Eeijv Thereupon men shout, yt hye heauen yalping yells.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie Y 3 To Yaulpe and barke like a dogge, and a foxe, gannio.
1580 W. Fulke Retentiue 51 They like impudent dogges yolpe & barke against vs.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 114 To stop their adversaries mouthes, alwayes yolping and crying with hatefull sounds.
1623 R. Jobson Golden Trade 145 The Lyon..remaines feeding..whilest his small seruant [sc. the Jackal] stands barking, and yalping by.
1654 [see yawping n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1787 [see yawping n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Yaup,..more commonly denotes the incessant crying of birds.
1880 T. Clarke et al. Specimens Westmorland Dial. (new ed.) ii. 52 (E.D.D.) We yoped an' shoot't ta egg folk on.
1883 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 30 Dec. 6/7 ‘That's it!’ yawped Mr. Spoopendyke. ‘You've been thinking again!’
1915 Daily Mail 12 Mar. 4/5 The Press of the Fatherland yelped and yawped at America's heels.
b. To speak foolishly or noisily. U.S. colloquial.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter
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chattera1250
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to run on pattens1546
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trattlea1555
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quiddlea1566
brabble1570
clicket1570
twattle1573
gabble1574
prittle1583
to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597
to word it1612
deblaterate1623
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twitter1630
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oversay1656
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to gallop away1711
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to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785
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yatter1825
potter1826
chipper1829
jaw-jaw1831
buzz1832
to shoot off one's mouth1864
yawp1872
blate1878
chin1884
yap1888
spiel1894
to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895
to run off at the mouth1908
chattermag1909
clatfart1913
to talk a streak1915
to run one's mouth1916
natter1942
ear-bash1944
rabbit1950
yack1950
yacker1961
to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965
yacket1969
to twat on1996
1872 S. Hale Let. 28 Oct. (1919) 90 Perhaps it is just as well, however, not to yawp much about our going alone, as it may be considered loose in America.
1926 T. Beer Mauve Decade vi. 233 Where the boys who badgered Richard Harding Davis for autographs in 1890 will be yawping over ‘Billy Baxter's Letters’ in 1900.
2. transitive. To utter with a strident or harsh voice.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > throatily or harshly
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brayc1400
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growl1759
croak1791
rasp1877
to grind out1889
grate1921
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxii. f. 161v To pacify this immoderate rage which in vain yt yalpest forth against this troupe.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4 What more haue I in my Proclamation to yalp out?
3. intransitive. To gape. dialect. (Cf. gawp v.)
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (intransitive)] > open
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ganec1000
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inhiate1542
gawne1563
gawp1728
yawp1836
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xxxi They stand starin and yawpin, all eyes and mouth.
1895 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 7 ‘Sue! Wot yer yawpin' at thar?’
Derivatives
ˈyawper n. (also yauper, yoper) one that yawps.
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the world > animals > by noises > [noun] > that utters a shrill cry
yawper1678
screamer1801
squealer1897
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call > harsh > bird having harsh cry
screecha1657
yawper1678
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > yell or yelp > person
yeller1619
yawper1678
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp > dog defined by
whappet1577
yap1603
yawper1678
yapper1823
yelper1847
1678 E. Howard Man of Newmarket iv. 43 Thou art so earnest still to follow Yopers, that make so much haste to devour a simple Hare.
1822 A. H. Everett Europe vii. 321 Much I care..for such little yaupers.
ˈyawping n. and adj. (also yauping)
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > bark or yelp > barking or yelping
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latration1623
yellowing1652
yapping1668
hylactism1818
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call > harsh
shrikingc1374
creaking1575
yawping1576
clang1667
shriek1765
yawp1824
cawk1856
squark1860
crunk1868
cronk1878
squarking1897
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > yell or yelp
yerra1225
braya1300
yellc1300
yellinga1382
yarmc1400
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braying1547
yowt1554
yawping1576
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yellowing1652
yawl1728
yelloching1773
yelp1775
gowl1805
youp1808
yawp1824
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [adjective] > yell or yelp
yellinga1382
yawping1576
yellowing1594
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yelled1854
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp > yelping
bawling1555
yawping1576
yelping1593
yapping1668
yappiness1928
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 31 The older dogges..cease from yolping.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 10 The apostacie of the sands from the yalping world was so great, that they ioynd themselues to the maine land of Eastflege.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 97 The yalping of maungie Whelps.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (1790) Yaaping, crying in despair, lamenting. Applied to chickens lamenting the absence of their parent hen.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Yauping, ill-natured, peevish.
1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xxxvii The..yawping and crying of the seabirds.
1899 J. L. Williams Stolen Story 206 When the time came,..a goodly number of these same yawping lads went to the front to get shot at.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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