yawping


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yawp

 (yôp)
intr.v. yawped, yawp·ing, yawps
1. To utter a sharp cry; yelp.
2. To talk loudly, raucously, or coarsely.
n.
1. A bark; a yelp.
2. Loud or coarse talk or utterance: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (Walt Whitman).

[Middle English yolpen, possibly variant of yelpen; see yelp.]

yawp′er n.
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yawping

(ˈjɔːpɪŋ)
n
a course, noisy, harsh, or strident utterance
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Now some people like to take a book and sit down and read, and read, and read, or moon around yawping at the lake or these mountains and things, but that ain't my way; no, sir, if they like it, let 'em do it, I don't object; but as for me, talking's what I like.
Oklahoma depresses us by yawping about it in such a way as to give the
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It was a revelation, for at eighteen I had no idea that words themselves--this tumbling riot of dithyrambs and yawping apostrophes and bardic cries--had the power to throw open the portals of perception, so that one could actually begin to feel and taste and smell the very texture of existence.
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I mean he's singing and yawping and I'm pretty sure I sense a frolic in this thing.