How to pronounce yawp

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What yawp means

verb

To let out a loud, harsh cry

In a sentence: The puppy yawped at the mail carrier until Grandpa called it inside.

Where it comes from: No one is sure where it came from. It goes back to an older English word that sounded much the same.

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