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Yark vs Yarl - What's the difference?

yark | yarl |

As verbs the difference between yark and yarl

is that yark is to make ready; prepare or yark can be to draw (stitches etc) tight while yarl is to sing in this manner.

As a noun yarl is

a deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the.

yark

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make ready; prepare.
  • *1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
    • [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]
  • (obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
  • (obsolete) To set open; open.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare (jerk) etc.

    Alternative forms

    * yerk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
  • To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
  • To crack (a whip).
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:
  • *:he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter''], as cunningly as any Carter in ''France .

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    yarl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the .
  • * 2002 , Patrick Berkery, " Record Review", Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 9 January 2002:
    • So pontificating on how Weathereds earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo ' yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.
  • * 2008 , Michael J. Vaughn, Outro , iUniverse (2008), ISBN 9781440111402, page 10:
    • One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.
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    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sing in this manner.
  • * 2009 , Andrew Matson, " Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?", The Seattle Times , 21 October 2009:
    • On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."
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