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Synonyms for yawp

to utter a shrill, short cry

to speak or say very loudly or with a shout

a shrill, short cry

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Synonyms for yawp

make a raucous noise

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And then there's this wacky hairy guy yawping from the roof about "oneness" and we're-all-in-this-together kinda stuff which must have sounded insane to them.
One minute he is mimicking his mother's voice yawping at him as a schoolboy to excel in class, and next, he becomes his wife, ballistic with rage, shouting at the real Rob, "You liar!" - the nickname he said his wife gave him.
We first meet James "yawping" in the morning just to annoy his father.
As attractive as the idea of a Whitman scion yawping over the bayous is, most critics agree that this was a lie designed to mystify Whitman's sexuality and cut off uncomfortable questions about it.
As a former student of Andrei, I know him not only for his work but for his yawping underneath waterfalls, improvising love songs in caves, and hunting for chanterelles in the Ozarks.
Though there has been a great deal of yawping ever since, not to mention the endless quasi discrete echo of Oppen and Zukofsky along the wayside.
The moment was supposed to be music, but whenever I woke in the night and heard the dogs somewhere in the distance, their yawping seemed such a mournful sound.