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yawp (v.)
c. 1300,
yolpen,
probably echoic variant of
yelpen
(see
yelp
). Related:
Yawped
;
yawping
. The noun, in reference to speech, is recorded from 1835, now used chiefly in conscious echo of Whitman (1855).
