yawp

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Shawn inherited a generous portion of his father's husky yawp, and we should be grateful it survives.

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  • The “say” may be bad—a mere yawp, and silence might be more becoming. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
  • Shawn inherited a generous portion of his father's husky yawp, and we should be grateful it survives. —  Expecting Rain
  • "I would bet that half the words written as instant messages or Twitter are snark of one sort or another … even a man as generous as Walt Whitman would be hard-pressed to hear in these flares the barbaric yawp of a free people," he writes of the electronically enabled hoi polloi who insist on ruining "our" conversation. —  Latest Articles
  • The concert explores the "yawp" - and its implications for the "primitive and direct poetics" that Coleman argues is distinctly American. —  Bostonist
  • No word on whether Smith's e-mail-long yawp has resulted in things getting fixed over in the UK, but here, you can buy the six-track EP (with digital booklet!) for $3.99: —  Idolator
 

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Etymologies (1)

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

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