yarr

present singular third person yarrs · participle present yarring · participle past yarred · past yarred

1. archaicintransitiveTo growl or snarl like a dog.

   She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.

   1921, Chamber's Journal

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   And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]

   1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel

1. UKdialectaluncountableThe plant Spergula arvensis, corn spurry.

1. alternativeAlternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”).

   Yarr, this be a fine ship.