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yarr en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To growl or snarl like a dog.
    • She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail. 1921, Chamber's Journal:
    • And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […] 1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel:

Forms

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yarrs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
yarring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
yarred Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
yarred Tense=Past lexicographic

yarr en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal, uncountable) The plant Spergula arvensis, corn spurry.

yarr en · INTJ · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”).
    alt of arr
    • Yarr, this be a fine ship.