yarrとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

yarr (三人称単数 現在形 yarrs, 現在分詞 yarring, 過去形および過去分詞形 yarred)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To growl or snarl like a dog.
   • 1921, Chamber's Journal

     She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.

   • 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart (translator), Gargantua and Pantagruel

     And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]

名詞

yarr (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialect) The plant Spergula arvensis, corn spurry.

発音

間投詞

yarr

1. Alternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”)

   Yarr, this be a fine ship.

アナグラム

• 'Arry