Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal form of
yaup .
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Examples
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No matter how fast you get it under the running cold water. raecarson, hearing my yowp of discomfort, ran to my aid ... just in time to chastise me for tearing away the loose flaps of dead skin with my teeth and blotting up the cold water with a dish towel.
In Which I Cry Ouch raecarson 2008
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"Though if they're standard combat lasers — yowp; there goes the shark."
Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990
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He let out a yowp that scared himself half into fits, and, scooting from under the danger, turned about and flung a fearful challenge of barking at the prostrate enemy.
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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