What's the difference between yawp and yelp?

Yawp


Definition:

  • (v. & n.) See Yaup.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Yelp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To boast.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
  • (n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apple’s also added info cards that seem to accumulate information from Yelp to show reviews.
  • (2) Just in the last month, I have downloaded apps for Eventbrite, Doodle, Yelp, Google Drive, Gmail, Ocado, Buzzfeed and Kickstarter, all companies with perfectly good websites.
  • (3) Broad looks to use his front pad outside off, sparking two yelped appeals and two shakes of the head from umpire Davis.
  • (4) The new format for the early audition shows (berks yelping in front of a massive screaming audience) left me wondering how the production team could possibly differentiate those instalments from the established format of the live episodes (berks yelping in front of a massive screaming audience).
  • (5) They’re like hungover teenagers, talking over each other and yelping.
  • (6) "Trying to stifle a cheer mid-yelp has sent stabbing pains across my stomach and I'm pretty sure has caused some internal bleeding.
  • (7) The band recall Can's ga-ga go-go music while the singer yelps like Alan Vega doused in even more echo.
  • (8) Watching the film has been emotional – it is Dad’s voice, soft and wise, with hints of his Australian homeland Dad used to jokingly tweak his children’s ears so that when we yelped he could work out who was who.
  • (9) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
  • (10) In Oak Creek they cancelled the closing fireworks out of respect for the dead but not the cheerleaders so that groups of Sikhs made their way to the neighbouring park for the vigil to the sound of young women yelping as they waved their pom poms to dance music.
  • (11) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
  • (12) He conceived Ziggy Stardust as a musical before realising he had to sing it himself, and would later shed his estuary yelp in favour of a neo-operatic baritone; his Presley-like cover of Nina Simone’s Wild Is the Wind became a signature song.
  • (13) Yelp, the consumer review website, also said that quit Alec.
  • (14) Uncertain about how this all might play on the page, he then yelps: "You can fawn if you want to, though!
  • (15) A big serve saves the first break point and Lisicki then lets out a yelp after putting an awful backhand wide when she only had to be put it in back in play.
  • (16) This allowed my surf school to become the top-rated in Orange County on Yelp.
  • (17) Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay and Yelp all cut ties with the organization following criticism by environmental nonprofits for drafting model legislation that denies any human contribution to climate change.
  • (18) We are the Yelp and the WebMD of cannabis,” Wansolich said, while taking in the hubbub outside Cannabis City.
  • (19) If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world,” he said, to yelps of support.
  • (20) 11.36am BST 8th over: Sri Lanka 20-0 (Karunaratne 6, Silva 10) Broad yelps an optimistic, half-hearted appeal after thwocking Silva on the pad, but then goes up with far more confidence after beating the bat with a straighter one.