yarr

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Verb

yarr (yarrs, present participle yarring; past and past participle yarred)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To growl or snarl like a dog.
   • 1921, Chamber's Journal

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

   • (in translation), Gargantua and Pantagruel

     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 […]

Noun

yarr (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialect) The plant Spergula arvensis, the corn spurry.

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