Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hungry.
- To be hungry.
- noun A dialectal form of
yelp . - noun The blue titmouse, Parus cæruleus, more fully called
blue yaup .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Scot. & Colloq. U. S. To cry out like a child; to yelp.
- noun Scot. & Colloq. U. S. A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The blue titmouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
yawp . - verb Obsolete spelling of
yawp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb emit long loud cries
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Examples
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"Hold your yaup," cried another boy, standing by; "if you don't like your bet, Hen Billings, I'll take it off your hands."
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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With a shrill yaup of terror Long Bill jerked a gun from its holster and fired upward.
Prairie Flowers 1921
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Emerson believes in him; Lowell not at all; Longfellow finds some good in his 'yaup;' but the truth is, he is in an amorphous condition.”
Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896
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Emerson believes in him; Lowell not at all; Longfellow finds some good in his 'yaup;' but the truth is, he is in an amorphous condition. "
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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