Yawps
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of yawp form-of, plural
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of yawp form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Example
More examples"Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bill. They weren’t yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you’d expect from a manly set of vocal organs — they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars. It’s an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak."
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