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yaup

yaup is the obsolete spelling of yawp.

Meaning of yawp

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

See all 5 meanings of yawp

Adjective

yaup

  1. (Scotland) hungry

Verb

yaup (third-person singular simple present yaups, present participle yauping, simple past and past participle yauped)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To be hungry.

Forms of yaup

Noun
pluralyaups
Verb
third-person singular presentyaups
present participleyauping
past participleyauped
pastyauped

Questions about yaup

What does yaup mean?
Yaup means hungry.
What is yaup the obsolete spelling of?
Yaup is the obsolete spelling of yawp.
What part of speech is yaup?
Yaup can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near yaup in the dictionary

  1. Yaumatei
  2. Yaumati
  3. Yaun
  4. Yauna
  5. Yauns
  6. yaup
  7. yaupan
  8. yauped
  9. yauper
  10. yaupers
  11. yauping

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yaup (page history and authors); yawp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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