a. Sc. [f. yaup, YAP a. + -ISH1.]
1789. Davidson, Seasons, Spring, 31. Take thou thy way To where the lusty tenant o’ the floods Has, yaupish, ta’en his stan’ in quest of food.
1835. D. Webster, Paisley Fair, in Harp of Renfrewshire, Ser. II. (1873), 153. I’m e’en growing yawpish, We maun hae some buns and some ale.
