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Yar vs Yarr - What's the difference?

yar | yarr |

As verbs the difference between yar and yarr

is that yar is to snarl; gnar while yarr is (archaic) to growl or snarl like a dog.

As an adjective yar

is sour; brackish or yar can be quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.

yar

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To snarl; gnar.
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; be captious or troublesome.

    • Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sour; brackish.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
    • 1940' ''My, she was '''yar ...It means, uh...easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right. Everything a boat should be, until she develops dry rot.'' -
  • * 1958 , Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
    • ...to make a ship best weighed, or yarest in her going.
    1993' ''Arr, here be a fine vessel: the '''yarest river-going boat there be. - Captain McAllister
    Synonyms
    * yare

    Anagrams

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    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