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Parr vs Yarr - What's the difference?

parr | yarr |

As a noun parr

is young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.

As a verb yarr is

(archaic) to growl or snarl like a dog.

parr

English

Noun

  • Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
  • A young leveret.

    • Anagrams

    * (Webster 1913)

    yarr

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
  • * François Rabelais (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