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yawp

/jɔːp/US/jɔp/

yawp verb: to yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise.

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) To clamor, to utter loud complaints.

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

yawp meaning in Urdu

yawp in Urdu

بدتمیزی سے بات کرنا

Forms of yawp

Verb
third-person singular presentyawps
present participleyawping
past participleyawped
pastyawped
alternative formyaup
Noun
pluralyawps

Origin of yawp

From Middle English yolpen, of imitative origin.

Words formed from yawp

Words that rhyme with yawp

Questions about yawp

What does yawp mean?
Yawp means to yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise.
What is yawp in Urdu?
Yawp in Urdu is بدتمیزی سے بات کرنا. See Yawp meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is yawp?
Yawp can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce yawp?
Yawp is pronounced /jɔːp/ (UK).
What is the past tense of yawp?
The past tense of yawp is yawped.

Words near yawp in the dictionary

  1. yawns
  2. yawnsome
  3. yawnsville
  4. yawnups
  5. yawny
  6. yawp
  7. yawpan
  8. yawped
  9. yawper
  10. yawpers
  11. yawping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yawp (page history and authors); yawp (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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