yawk

English

Alternative forms

• yock, yuck

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): /jɑːk/
• (MLE, Cork and Dublin) IPA^(key): /jɔk/
• (MLE, Birmingham and Liverpool) IPA^(key): /jɑk~jak/
• (MLE, London) IPA^(key): /jʌk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk
• Homophone: york (non-rhotic)

Interjection

yawk

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, gaming, rare) Imitative for the sound of a shot, in particular of a gun.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:yawk.

Verb

yawk (third-person singular simple present yawks, present participle yawking, simple past and past participle yawked)

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, gaming, rare, ambitransitive) To shoot, to make an impact (on) by or as if by firing.

   Synonyms: bun, blam, blem

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:yawk.

Anagrams

• Kyaw

Scots

Alternative forms

• yauk

Etymology

From Middle English aken, from Old English acan, from Proto-West Germanic *akan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑːk/, /jɔːk/

Verb

yawk

1. to be painful or in pain

Noun

yawk

1. A state of perplexity.

References

• “yawk, v., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.