The word 'yawp' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to shout or utter loudly and energetically, often in a boisterous or persistent manner. Example: The children ran through the park, stopping every so often to yawp with excitement at the sight of a butterfly or a squirrel. In this sentence, 'yawp' is used to portray the enthusiastic and exuberant behavior of the children, as they shouted and exclaimed with joy while playing in the park.
He refused to give the microphone back to the usher.But then a most impressive thing happened, just as the crowd of a few hundred started to yawp and cat-call.
"Theirs was the American yawp," he wrote.
Still, the voice is unforgettable, at times attaining the incantatory power of Whitman's "barbaric yawp".
The resulting four-hour yawp of fury was cut down to this eighty-three-minute glint of menace.
By the time a late-breaking, soapy plot twist arrives, you may no longer give a yawp.
His signature work is "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," a barbaric yawp of a piece that fuses William Blake's poetry with a welter of musical traditions, from Shaker hymns to reggae.
To Whitman's "barbaric yawp," he added a barbaric precision as stark and challenging as skyscrapers against the sky.
Rand's political conscience (such as it was), her belief that the profound responsibility for the future of mankind weighed on her shoulders, turned the freakish yawp of her tantrum-like vision grimly gray.
This weekend, while commentators yawped on about local democracy, and Ed Miliband vowed he'd close the chasm between the rich and the rest of us by a whole couple of centimetres, a bunch of young women in east London just got on and did it.
And what of this strange portrait bust of the American poet Ezra Pound, who bounced into London, knowing no one, in 1909, yawping twenty to the dozen, and desperate to meet WB Yeats, the greatest living poet then writing in the English language?
Its crew killed by "yawping Redskins," it is free to wander the seas on its own: "Sweeter than sour apples are to infants / Were the green waters my pine hull drank".
