yawk

== English == === Alternative forms === yock, yuck === Etymology === Onomatopoeic. === Pronunciation === (African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /jɑːk/ (MLE, Cork and Dublin) IPA(key): /jɔk/ (MLE, Birmingham and Liverpool) IPA(key): /jɑk~jak/ (MLE, London) IPA(key): /jʌk/ Rhymes: -ɔːk Homophone: york (non-rhotic) === Interjection === yawk (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, gaming, rare) Imitative for the sound of a shot, in particular of a gun. For quotations using this term, see Citations:yawk. === Verb === yawk (third-person singular simple present yawks, present participle yawking, simple past and past participle yawked) (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, gaming, rare, ambitransitive) To shoot, to make an impact (on) by or as if by firing. Synonyms: bun, blam, blem For quotations using this term, see Citations:yawk. === Anagrams === Kyaw == Scots == === Alternative forms === yauk === Etymology === From Middle English aken, from Old English acan, from Proto-West Germanic *akan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jɑːk/, /jɔːk/ === Verb === yawk to be painful or in pain === Noun === yawk A state of perplexity. === References === “yawk, v., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.