yawk

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English

Alternative forms

yock, yuck

Etymology

Pronunciation

(African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): /jɑːk/
(MLE, Cork and Dublin) IPA^(key): /jɔk/
(MLE, Birmingham and Liverpool) IPA^(key): /jɑk~jak/
(MLE, London) IPA^(key): /jʌk/
Rhymes: -ɔːk
Homophone: york (non-rhotic)

Interjection

yawk

(slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, gaming, rare) imitative for the sound of a shot in particular of a gun.

Verb

yawk (third-person singular simple present yawks, present participle yawking, simple past and past participle yawked)

(slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, gaming, rare, transitive, intransitive) to shoot, to make an impact (on) by or as if by firing.
Synonyms: bun, blam, blem

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:yawk.

Anagrams

Kyaw

Scots

Alternative forms

yauk

Etymology

From Middle English aken, from Old English acan, from Proto-West Germanic *akan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɑːk/, /jɔːk/

Verb

yawk

to be painful or in pain

Noun

yawk

A state of perplexity.

References

“yawk, v., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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