yapster (yapster)

[ yarı (yär), v. i.; pret. and pp. yarred, ppr. yar ring. [Also yarr, Sc. yirr; Thenne watz hit lif vpon list to lythen the honndez, Loude he (the fox] watz zayned [hallooed] with zarande speech. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1724. All the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their acce to her. Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, II. xxii. ( Davies .) yar2, yare2 (yär, yar), a. [Origin not ascertained.] Sour; brackish. [Prov. Eng.]