yapı (yap)

i.; pret. and pp. yapped, ppr. yapping. [Prob. imitative. Cf. yaff, waff2, and yaupl.] To yelp or bark. [Prov. Eng.] Codfish, tinware, apple-brandy, Weathers field onions, wooden bowls, and other articles of Yankee barter. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 276. Examine him outside and in, I'd thank ye, Morals, Paris i an - manners, perfect Yankee . Mr. Transome appeared with a face of feeble delight, Lord Houghton , A Knock at the Door (quoted in playing horse to little Harry, who roared and flogged be- [N. and Q., 7th ser., XI. 106). IMG:content-2665.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Yankees collectively considered. Up the turning via Galileo they climb, to the Basilica at the top,.. hackneyed as only Yankee dom and Cockneydom, rushing hand in hand through all earth's sacredne es, can hackney. Rhoda Brought on , Alas, viii. Yankee-Doodlet (yang'kē-dö'dl), n. A Yankee: a humorous use, from a popular air so named. [Rare.] I might have withheld these political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee Doodles . Moore, Parody of a Celebrated Letter. Yankeefied (yang'kē-fid), a . [ Yankee2 +-fy+ -ed2.] Having the appearance or manner of a Yankee; characteristic of a Yankee. [Colloq.] The Colonel whittled away at a bit of stick in the most Yankeefied way po ible. A Stray Yankee in Texas , p. 113. ( Bartlett .) Yankee-gang (yang'kē-gang), n. An arrangement in a sawmill (in Canada) adapted for logs of 21 inches or le in diameter. It consists of two sets of gang-saws, having parallel ways in the immediate vicinity of each other. One is the slabbing-gang, which reduces the log to a balk and slab-boards. The balk is then shifted to the stock-gang, which rips it into lumber. E. H. Knight. Yankeeism (yang'kē-izm), n. [ Yankee2 + -ism.] 1. Yankee ways or characteristics. "I confe I had feared that Lily's impetuous ways - her -her-" " "Flamboyant Yankeeism , ' Mr. Gore-Thompson called it," suggested Mrs. Clay. "We are from the Southwest originally," rather stiffly answered Mrs. Floyd-Curtis, who took Yankeeism to cover the reproach of a New England birthplace. Mrs. Burton Harrison , The Anglomaniacs, i. 2. A locution or a practice characteristic of Yankees, specifically of the inhabitants of New England. IMG:content-2666.png:[ocr errors] Cu edne . and cu ,... in such phrases as "He done it out o' pure cu edne ," and "He is a nateral cu ," have been commonly thought Yankee isms . But neither is our own. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. yanker (yang'ker), n . [ yankı + -erl. In def. 3 cf. D. janker , a bawler, brawler, lit. yelper, janken , yelp, bark.] 1. A smart blow.2. A great falsehood; a plumper. [Scotch.] "Ay, billy, that is a yanker ! " said Tam aside. "When ane is gaun to tell a lie, there's naething like telling a plumper at aince." Hogg, Three Perils of Man, I. 336. ( Jamie son .) 3. Same as yankie, 2. Imp . Dict . yankie (yang'ki), n. [ Imp . Dict . yanking (yang'king), p . a. [Ppr. of yank1 , v.] 1. Active; pushing; thoroughgoing. [Scotch.] "Ye'll be nae bagman, then, after a'?" "No," said the traveller. "Weel, I canna say but I am glad o' that -I canna bide their yanking way of knapping English at every word." Scott , St. Ronan's Well, ii. 2. Jerking; pulling. [U. S.] That poor Emery Ann had had a yanking old horse, and a wretchedly uncomfortable saddle;.. the wonder was that she had stayed on at all. hind him, while Moro yapped in a puppy voice at their heels. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xlii. Presently he [the dog] yapped, as if in hot chase of a rabbit. R. D. Black more, Kit and Kitty, xxiv. yapı (yap), n. [ yape (yap), v. i. See yaup2. yaply (yap'li), adv. A dialectal form of yeply. yapok, yapock (yap'ok), n. [Also yapach, oyap ock: so named from the river Oyapok, between French Guiana and Brazil.] The South American water-opo um, Chironectes variegatus. It is IMG:content-2667.png:[graphic][merged small] one of the smaller opo ums, rather larger than the houser at, with large naked ears, long scaly tail, and handsomely variegated fur. It is a good swimmer, resembles the otter habits, and feeds on fish and other aquatic animals. yapon (ya'pon), n. [Also yaupon, yupon; prob. of Amer. Ind. origin.] An evergreen shrub or small tree of the holly kind, Ilex vomitoria, better known as I. Ca ine, found from Virginia around the coast to Texas, thence to Arkansas. It is generally a tall shrub sending up shoots from the ground, and forming dense thickets, but in Texas some 2 yapster