different between yarl vs yarn

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English yarne, ?ern, yarn, from the Old English ?earn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garn? (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“tharm, guts, intestines”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yân, IPA^(key): /j??n/
• (US) enPR: yârn, IPA^(key): /j??n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)n

Noun

yarn (countable and uncountable, plural yarns)

1. (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
2. (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
3. (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

Synonyms

• (story or tale): story, tale

Hyponyms

• (en, fiber strand): worsted

Derived terms

• yarn-beam
• yarn-spinner
• yarnwindle

Related terms

• spin a yarn

Translations

See also

• hank
• twine
• thread

Verb

yarn (third-person singular simple present yarns, present participle yarning, simple past and past participle yarned)

1. To tell a story or stories.
   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,^[1]

     “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”

   • 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 7,^[2]

     They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.

Derived terms

• yarner

Translations

Anagrams

• Arny, N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, n-ary, nary

Middle English

Noun

yarn

1. Alternative form of yarne