different between yaws vs yawp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??z/
• Homophone: yours (some non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain.

Noun

yaws (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 16:

     Other threats came from organisms co-evolving with humans, including tapeworms and such spirochaetes as Treponema, the agent of syphilis, and the similar skin infection, yaws.

Synonyms

• parangi

Translations

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

yaws

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yaw

Noun

yaws

1. plural of yaw

Anagrams

• -ways, Sway, sway, ways

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