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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD YAWP

Yolpen, probably of imitative origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF YAWP

yawp  [jɔːp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF YAWP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Yawp is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb yawp in English.

WHAT DOES YAWP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of yawp in the English dictionary

The first definition of yawp in the dictionary is to gape or yawn, esp audibly. Other definition of yawp is to shout, cry, or talk noisily; bawl. Yawp is also to bark, yelp, or yowl.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO YAWP

PRESENT

Present
I yawp
you yawp
he/she/it yawps
we yawp
you yawp
they yawp
Present continuous
I am yawping
you are yawping
he/she/it is yawping
we are yawping
you are yawping
they are yawping
Present perfect
I have yawped
you have yawped
he/she/it has yawped
we have yawped
you have yawped
they have yawped
Present perfect continuous
I have been yawping
you have been yawping
he/she/it has been yawping
we have been yawping
you have been yawping
they have been yawping
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I yawped
you yawped
he/she/it yawped
we yawped
you yawped
they yawped
Past continuous
I was yawping
you were yawping
he/she/it was yawping
we were yawping
you were yawping
they were yawping
Past perfect
I had yawped
you had yawped
he/she/it had yawped
we had yawped
you had yawped
they had yawped
Past perfect continuous
I had been yawping
you had been yawping
he/she/it had been yawping
we had been yawping
you had been yawping
they had been yawping
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will yawp
you will yawp
he/she/it will yawp
we will yawp
you will yawp
they will yawp
Future continuous
I will be yawping
you will be yawping
he/she/it will be yawping
we will be yawping
you will be yawping
they will be yawping
Future perfect
I will have yawped
you will have yawped
he/she/it will have yawped
we will have yawped
you will have yawped
they will have yawped
Future perfect continuous
I will have been yawping
you will have been yawping
he/she/it will have been yawping
we will have been yawping
you will have been yawping
they will have been yawping
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would yawp
you would yawp
he/she/it would yawp
we would yawp
you would yawp
they would yawp
Conditional continuous
I would be yawping
you would be yawping
he/she/it would be yawping
we would be yawping
you would be yawping
they would be yawping
Conditional perfect
I would have yawp
you would have yawp
he/she/it would have yawp
we would have yawp
you would have yawp
they would have yawp
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been yawping
you would have been yawping
he/she/it would have been yawping
we would have been yawping
you would have been yawping
they would have been yawping
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you yawp
we let´s yawp
you yawp
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to yawp
Past participle
yawped
Present Participle
yawping
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH YAWP


Australorp
ˈɒstrəˌlɔːp
caup
kɔːp
dorp
dɔːp
gaup
ɡɔːp
gawp
ɡɔːp
jaup
dʒɔːp
Krugersdorp
ˈkruːɡəzˌdɔːp
mouldwarp
ˈməʊldˌwɔːp
mouldywarp
ˈməʊldɪˌwɔːp
octothorp
ˈɒktəˌθɔːp
Oglethorpe
ˈəʊɡəlˌθɔːp
scaup
skɔːp
Scunthorpe
ˈskʌnˌθɔːp
thorp
θɔːp
Thorpe
θɔːp
warp
wɔːp
whaup
wɔːp
yaup
jɔːp
yorp
jɔːp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE YAWP

yaup
yauper
yaupon
yautia
yaw
Yawata
yawey
yawl
yawmeter
yawn
yawner
yawning
yawningly
yawnsome
yawny
yawper
yawping
yaws
yawy
yay

WORDS THAT END LIKE YAWP

cowp
lowp
scowp
scrawp
sowp
stowp
twp

Synonyms and antonyms of yawp in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «yawp» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF YAWP

Find out the translation of yawp to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of yawp from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «yawp» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

饶舌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

yawp
570 millions of speakers

English

yawp
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

yawp
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

yawp
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

yawp
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

yawp
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

yawp
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

yawp
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Yawp
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

yawp
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ペチャクチャ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

yawp
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Yawp
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

yawp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கரகரப்பொலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Yawp
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yawp
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

yawp
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

yawp
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

yawp
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

yawp
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

φωνάζω
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

YAWP
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

yawp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

yawp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of yawp

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «YAWP»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «YAWP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about yawp

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YAWP»

Discover the use of yawp in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to yawp and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cocopa Dictionary
See Kelly (1977:120). wi.yawp third person inanimate of '?i.yawp iv be obvious. xswrx paya.c wi . yawpxany it is really obvious that it is going to get cold; cnyamc wi .yawp yu?i.p he felt or sensed that it was dark; kwarkwar ?im lwi.yawpm I ...
James Mack Crawford, 1989
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
41 Barbie and Ken I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. Tom Wolfe used the expression to sum up American energy and self- confident vulgarity in his 1981 indictment of ...
Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber, 1999
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Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner's ...
George Santayana singles out these lines in 'The Poetry of Barbarism', noting how 'the “barbaric yawp” is sent “over the roofs of the world” in full consciousness of its inarticulate character'; indeed, the word 'yawp' was chiefly used of bird cries  ...
Robert Stark, 2012
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A Saucer of Loneliness
I remember a nightclub act where Reginald Gardiner used to give sound-effect renditions of wallpaper designs. This one, I decided, would run “Body to weep yawp, yawp; body to weep yawp, yawp,” very faintly, with the final syllable a straining ...
Theodore Sturgeon, 2013
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The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and ...
Equally incongruent with Wordsworth's voice in his sonnet is Haydar's use of the words 'prank,' 'bonnet,' and 'yawp' in stanzas 4 and 5. Stanza 4 is an extended metaphor throwing the British poet's 'words worth' on a canvas to form 'a tableau  ...
Caroline Rooney, Rita Sakr, 2013
6
Death Smells of Cordite: A Classic Crime Novel
Better to have kept the signature off until the yawp had kept his bargain Then the yawp said, “He was sittin' up at a diner with a rough-lookin' fellar could have been a truck driver.” Farran sighed with relief The yawp was square Maybe he'd get ...
Gordon Landsborough, 2013
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Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
Contemporaries were quick to fasten on to the phrase “barbaric yawp” to characterize the outré quality of Whitman's verse. The parodist of the 1860 “ Counter-Jumps,” for instance, rephrased it “feeble yelp” (see p. 29). But there is as surely a ...
Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan, 2013
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FatherLoad: A Collection: Adoption, Dead Fish, and the True ...
Barbaric yawp Spring, 2004 Reading excerpts from Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself” has always been a positive, affirming thingfor me and, I hope, my students. The 52nd and final verse uses that “barbaric yawp” phrase, and I imposed a format ...
Kevin Redman, 2013
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Walt Whitman’s Poetry-An Analytical Approach
“Song of Myself” thus ends with a sound—a yawp—that could be described as either pre- or post-linguistic. Lacking any of the normal communicative properties of language, Whitman's yawp is the release of the “kosmos” within him, a sound at ...
Raja Sharma
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Ezra Pound: A Jargoner's Apprenticeship, with an Appendix on ...
Prior to Whitman, the word "yawp" was chiefly used of bird cries. George Santayana singles out these lines in "The Poetry of Barbarism," noting how "the ' barbaric yawp' is sent 'over the roofs of the world' in full consciousness of its inarticulate ...
Robert Stark, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «YAWP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term yawp is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ojai's Golden Hour
People, particularly people belonging to Generations X or Y, are responding to Ojai as a whole with a collective barbaric yawp. The idyllic valley town, about 90 ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
“Moops” now, “Moops” forever: The sad, final yawp of the defeated …
If you read the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in King v. Burwell, you probably came away thinking that the plaintiffs and the conservative activists who dreamed ... «Salon, Jul 15»
3
Letters: Bloom's Day
Harold Bloom's expansive yawp may be unmatched critically, as Cynthia Ozick finds in her review of “The Daemon Knows” (May 24), but for seizing the ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
4
Business Q&A: Yawp Cyclery, Edgewater
Our priority at Yawp is never to confuse wants with needs. In most cases, we can get you what you want, but we'll never tell you that you need something you ... «The Denver Post, May 15»
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Interview with editors of 'The American Yawp,' a free history textbook …
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world," Walt Whitman declares in Leaves of Grass. How he ended the line without an exclamation point always ... «Inside Higher Ed, Mar 15»
6
'Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp': George F. Will's 1998 Review of 'A Man …
But now comes Tom Wolfe's second great rooftop yawp of a novel, and suddenly a novel is news. It is because it strikes chords of anxiety about the nation's ... «Newsweek, Mar 15»
7
Duke Garwood – Heavy Love
The name Garwood alone sounds as if it could be the guttural, barbaric yawp of a primeval hunter rather than the name of a musician in the era of social ... «mxdwn.com, Feb 15»
8
Here's a Compilation of Pau Gasol Roaring His Primal Yawp
Dylan Connolly says the Gasol screams he used to patch together this compilation were pulled from only eight (!) games, meaning my .8 PYPG estimate was off ... «Bleacher Report, Feb 15»
9
Watch a Bulldog Puppy Try to Howl in an Adorable Video
In Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself,” the poet wrote about letting loose with a “barbaric yawp.” This little bulldog puppy is doing its best to live up to Whitman's ... «TIME, Oct 14»
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A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on lessons from Robin Williams
Hawke spoke with Reuters about "Seymour: An Introduction," its underlying themes on art and mentorship, and how Williams helped him find his "barbaric yawp. «Reuters, Sep 14»

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