yoop

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Have a try And the other, encouraged by a friendly slap, tried in her turn and--yoop!--succeeded ... very nearly Pa was enraptured at the mere sight of Lily's little curled nostrils and her earnest look What a professor she would make!"

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  1. A word imitative of a hiccuping or sobbing sound. [Rare.] There was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and crying, with the hysterical yoops of Miss Swartz, … as no pen can depict. Thackeray, Vanity Fair.

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  • Have a try And the other, encouraged by a friendly slap, tried in her turn and--yoop!--succeeded ... very nearly Pa was enraptured at the mere sight of Lily's little curled nostrils and her earnest look What a professor she would make!" —  The Bill-Toppers
  • And Lily, with all her little muscles alive, took a bike, jumped on it as she would on a stool and then -- yoop! —  The Bill-Toppers
  • And the other, encouraged by a friendly slap, tried in her turn and -- yoop! —  The Bill-Toppers
  • And a yoop -- yoop -- yoop for the night —  Wild Animals at Home
  • Yap -- yoop -- yow -- yahhh! —  Wild Animals at Home
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