yarr
verbEtymology Imitative.
1
Archaic To growl or snarl like a dog.
- She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.1921, Chamber's Journal:
- 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 […]1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel: