yaup

[ yawp, yahp ]

/ yɔp, yɑp /

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verb (used without object), noun

yawp.

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OTHER WORDS FROM yaup

yauper, noun

Words nearby yaup

yatter, Yauco, yaud, yauld, Yaunde, yaup, yaupon, yautia, Yavapai, Yavarí, yaw

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How to use yaup in a sentence

I hope ye are yaup, for ye have a lang day's wark before ye.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847|Various
"Hold your yaup, you youngster you," roared the old man in reply.
The South-West|Joseph Holt Ingraham

British Dictionary definitions for yaup

yaup

/ (jɔːp) /

verb, noun

a variant spelling of yawp

Derived forms of yaup

yauper, noun

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