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How to pronounce yawp in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bawl
Type of howl, roar
Type Words
Synonyms grizzle, whine, yammer
Type of complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, kick
Verb group whine, snivel

Examples of yawp

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Still, 90 minutes of barbaric yawp does not an opera, punk or otherwise, make.
From the bloomberg.com
For starters, it takes the cathartic yawp out of a lead singer's toolkit.
From the newsweek.com
In this attempt Wolfe never got beyond his barbaric yawp of an overture.
From the time.com
But then a most impressive thing happened, just as the crowd of a few hundred started to yawp and cat-call.
From the economist.com
What he believed in was a combination of technical know-how, moral anger and all-American barbaric yawp.
From the time.com
A budding anthropologist starts a tape recorder, Crabb opens his toothless yawp and the saga unfurls.
From the time.com
He'd throw back his weary, bespectacled head in a sudden boyish yawp of merriment when he realized what I was up to.
From the theatlantic.com
This is democracy's great barbaric yawp.
From the online.wsj.com
By the time he died of heart failure two years ago at the age of 41, he had built a reputation as a one-man barbaric yawp.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Make a raucous noise
  • Whine: complain whiningly
  • A yelp or bark; loud or coarse talk; to talk loudly and coarsely; clamor, utter loud complaints
  • Talk, yell, cry loudly.