yawp
IPA: jˈɔp
noun
- A yelp or bark.
- Loud or coarse talk.
verb
- (intransitive) To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise.
- (intransitive) To talk loudly and coarsely.
- (intransitive) To clamor, to utter loud complaints.
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Examples of "yawp" in Sentences
- It thus becomes an inarticulate patriotic "yawp," of tremendous ear-splitting power.
- For many, his "touch," like Walt Whitman's "yawp," still exemplifies an authentic American spirit.
- Then it dawned on Cassidy, too, and for a second all he did was yawp and utter a low, breathy “Shit!”
- As the poem required, we contained multitudes, contradicted ourselves, let forth a barbaric yawp, and much much more.
- Keating is even the kind of educator who can coax from a shy, stuttering student (Ethan Hawke) Walt Whitman's famed "barbaric yawp."
- The concert explores the "yawp" - and its implications for the "primitive and direct poetics" that Coleman argues is distinctly American.
- Rather than rescue the late work, this retrospective ends an iconic American career not with an exuberant yawp, but, sadly, with a whimper.
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