different between yawp vs yawl

English

Alternative forms

• yaup

Etymology

From Middle English yolpen.

Verb

yawp (third-person singular simple present yawps, present participle yawping, simple past and past participle yawped)

1. (intransitive) to yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise
2. (intransitive) to talk loudly and coarsely
3. (intransitive) clamor, utter loud complaints

Derived terms

• yawper

Noun

yawp (plural yawps)

1. a yelp or bark
2. loud or coarse talk

   I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world - Walt Whitman

Anagrams

• Pway, p way, p-way

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