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Yarer vs Yarr - What's the difference?

yarer | yarr |

As an adjective yarer

is comparative of yare.

As a verb yarr is

to growl or snarl like a dog.

yarer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (yare)

    • yare

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Ready; prepared.
  • Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be yare in thy preparation.
  • Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
  • (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare ; whereas the greater is slow.

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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