different between yarl vs yawl

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??l/
• Homophone: y'all
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h?ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

Noun

yawl (plural yawls)

1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.

Translations

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

1. To cry out; to howl.

References

Anagrams

• waly, wyla

French

Noun

yawl m (plural yawls)

1. yawl (type of boat)

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawl.

Noun

yawl m (genitive singular yawl, plural yawlyn)

1. yawl