different between farl vs yarl

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Etymology 1

Contraction of fardel.

Noun

farl (plural farls)

1. (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
2. Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.

See also

• soda bread
• potato bread

Etymology 2

Verb

farl (third-person singular simple present farls, present participle farling, simple past and past participle farled)

1. Obsolete form of furl.
   • 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, Act 1, Scene 1, First Beaumont and Fletcher folio, 1854, Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 2, page 416,

     Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull !

     Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !

Anagrams

• larf

English

Etymology

Presumably onomatopoeic. Coined by Josh Sinder and Alex Sibbald of the band Hot Rod Lunatics.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /j??l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l

Noun

yarl (plural yarls)

1. A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
   • 2002, Patrick Berkery, "Record Review", Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 9 January 2002:

     So pontificating on how Weathered's earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.

   • 2008, Michael J. Vaughn, Outro, iUniverse (2008), ?ISBN, page 10:

     One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarl.

Verb

yarl (third-person singular simple present yarls, present participle yarling, simple past and past participle yarled)

1. To sing in this manner.
   • 2009, Andrew Matson, "Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?", The Seattle Times, 21 October 2009:

     On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarl.

References

Anagrams

• Lary, Lyra, RYLA, Rayl, Ryal, aryl, lyar, lyra, ryal