Yap vs Provoke - What's the difference?
yap | provoke |
The high-pitched bark of a small dog.
An informal talk.
The mouth, which produces speech.
(Geordie) A badly behaved child, a brat.
Of a small dog, to bark.
(slang) To talk, especially excessively.
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
As a proper noun yap
is an atoll in the caroline islands of western micronesia.As a verb provoke is
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.yap
English
Noun
(en noun)- Shut your yap !
References
*Verb
(yapp)- You’re always yapping - I wish you’d shut up.
Anagrams
* * * ----provoke
English
Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)