(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.
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Yawp
Definition:
(v. & n.) See Yaup.
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(1) This weekend, while commentators yawped on about local democracy, and Ed Miliband vowed he’d close the chasm between the rich and the rest of us by a whole couple of centimetres, a bunch of young women in east London just got on and did it.
(2) If one accepts Iran's ruling that Jafar Panahi is no longer a film-maker , then it follows that his latest release is an orphan, unnamed and unclassifiable; a 75-minute yawp in the darkness.