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Definitions
Etymologies
- (Can we verify(+) this etymology?) Perhaps an acronym of “Your Own Marching Pace”. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“An annual charity "yomp" across Dartmoor has been re-routed because of”
“During the final yomp through the election battlegrounds, David Cameron will be adapting the motto of the SAS.”
The Guardian: The British don't need to be hung up about a hung parliament
“Like everyone these days, the wee man from Belfast has been on a journey since turning pro in 2007, only his journey has been a fun-filled sprint rather than a tedious yomp.”
The Guardian: The Open 2010: Rory McIlroy enjoys a day of fantasy at St Andrews
“Yet I am undeniably attractive, stylish and able to yomp around the countryside for hours on end without needing an oxygen tent.”
“Whatever the rights, wrongs or otherwise of that South Atlantic yomp, and without accurate recollection of her many proclamations, I remember she made much of ‘the boys’ fighting out there, or even ‘her boys’.”
“As we started to put all our wet weather gear back on I asked Bill if he wanted to stay at Les Mottets for the night and I was hoping he did….but we left the shelter and headed up to the next col, at a bit of a yomp because of the risk of not haing a bed for the night.”
“It was a bit of a yomp in truth; we got the bus to Balerno and then headed across the Kips and down to Flotterstone.”
“Went on a woodland yomp with my writer friends in Sussex last week.”
“Savile earned respect from the crack regiment as one of only two civilians to complete a 30-mile yomp with full pack across Dartmoor - inevitably, to raise money for good causes.”
“Unless you're planning a serious mountain yomp leave the 18-hole hiking boots at home and choose footwear that can be easily slipped on and off.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yomp’.
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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yabba, yabby, yachty, yad, yaff, yaffingale, yag, yager, yahrzeit, yair, yajna, yakhdan and 63 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Hillwalking
Rambling terms, walking words and trekking phrases
shank's mare, yomp, tab, hump, ramble, traipsing, dingle, nullah, groundsel, bealach, cairn, regolith and 6 more...
Tweets
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errguitar British Royal Marines term for long march with full kit - made popular by the yomp from San Carlos to Stanley during the Falklands war of 1982. Wikipedia yomp Jun 11, 2008